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...document should have a smoother passage to adoption than the nuclear letter, if only because it appears to be closer to established Catholic social teaching. But it might gain wider acceptance, both inside and outside the church, if the bishops heed criticism that some of their economic prescriptions are outmoded...
...Entry, a Minneapolis club where Prince also used to play. In the middle of "Let's Go Crazy," enter Apollonia, a New Orleans singer trying desperately to make it in the business. While success continues to elude her, she soon finds both the Kid and his worst enemy, the smoother-than-oil, quintessentially villainous Morris Day, hot on her trail...
...that level, Purple Rain works. The stage struts, the soundtrack--in itself worth the price of admission--and the high-camp, high-kitsch style create a spectular vehicle for Prince. The trappings and antics make for an entertaining change from smoother, more packaged summer fare. What one thinks of Prince, of course, is a debatable question of taste. The teenyboppers on my left, breathing heavily one minute, running for popcorn the next, "really, really loved him." The friend on my right looked pensive. "You know," he mused, "if Oscar Wilde were alive today, I think he'd be Prince...
Olympic Diving Coach Ron O'Brien observes, "Because Greg is stronger, he can go higher and dive slower and smoother. When most divers do a hard dive, they have to hurry to make it. Greg's diving looks like a slow-motion film, and he has a body perfectly proportioned for diving. His lines are graceful and beautiful." As Louganis describes the deliberateness, "A rattlesnake coils up, but he's not going to strike until he has every ounce of explosive power behind him." It is the same in diving...
...refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rosovsky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum, the silence is an echo. Granted, Bok is a smoother man than Pusey--as the Corporation and Overseers realized when they named him, he is the sort to rely on calm words, rather than police violence, to settle confrontations--but he has shown little more sensitivity to student concerns than did his predecessor. The echoes of 1969 grow louder with...