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...Staunch friends and followers were among the most deeply hurt by Shannon's decision. Father John Reedy, editor of the Catholic weekly Ave Maria, voices the fears of many in the magazine's Aug. 23 issue. "Morale sinks lower," Reedy writes. The marriage is a "cloud of distraction" that may now encourage conservatives to "tune out all that Bishop Shannon was saying because 'all the time, he just wanted to get married.' " Underground churches, says Reedy, will be tempted anew to disregard church discipline, however much Shannon himself may protest-as he still does-that...
...views on what he regards as the two principal scourges of the century ?Communism and Freudianism?are staunch. Nabokov sees both as dreadful infringements upon creative freedom. "The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me," he says. "My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones or played in theaters...
...country, but at that only 17% would risk it. Mexico is second, at 15%. If Brazil were invaded by outside Communist military force, 52% would favor some form of U.S. help-though only 7% would go so far as to launch hydrogen bombs. Only 42% would aid Italy, a staunch NATO ally. Americans would not go that far if other countries were threatened by a Communist takeover from within, even if the insurrection had outside help; in such a situation, for example, only 28% would have the U.S. come to the aid of Italy. Despite John Kennedy's ringing...
Opposition to cigarettes has grown appreciably on Capitol Hill since 1965. About the only staunch supporters of the industry left are Congressmen from the big tobacco states, notably the Carolinas, Kentucky and Virginia. Many other Congressmen are worried about the health dangers, and sensitive to the growing movement to protect consumers -a major new trend in American life...
...always gratifying to witness a performer improve his role, and this production affords that gratification in triplicate to staunch Harvard Dilbert and Sullivan patrons. John McKean seems to have found, in Ralph Rackstraw, the Gilbertian lead to which he is best suited. The part calls for rapid changes of character: from a caricature of soulfulness to impetuosity to prideful rage to rapture to despair to pompous authority and back, finally, to rapture. That McKean can make so many transitions so rapidly is itself a feat worthy of praise; that he makes them so smoothly and so convincingly is simply amazing...