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...than a scholar, Cody has three earned doctorates. Theologically, he has the reputation of a conservative who likes priests to do things his way. In Chicago, where priests and laymen were given a free hand to experiment by both Meyer and his predecessor, Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Cody's taut-ship policy might create some strains. A past president of the National Catholic Educational Association, Archbishop Cody has a special interest in schools and will have under his jurisdiction the nation's largest archdiocesan system: 437 elementary and 90 high schools. "I feel that the education of our Catholic...
Stampp's book summarizes and synthesizes the revisionists' research. Without completely overturning the Dunningites, it significantly shifts their emphases, re-interpreting every major figure and policy of the postwar decade. A taut, provocative essay, The Era of Reconstruction will, like Stampp's earlier book on slavery (The Peculiar Institution), undoubtedly become an indispensable classic in its field...
...flew about three-fourths of a mile that way. Then I reached down and pulled the seat handles, which flipped off the canopy. Then I groped until I found the ejection handles. I was still pulling them when the butt-snapper -that's a canvas that snaps taut and flips you clear-under my seat propelled me out into the air. Three swift jolts, and I was floating down in my parachute. Since I had nothing else to do, I went through the procedure I'd been taught over and over again...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Tension, desperation, and ultimate tragedy invade the home of a longshoreman, his wife, and the niece whom he loves incestuously. Taut direction and an extremely able cast revivify this ten-year-old Arthur Miller drama...
...with The Midsummer Marriage, a kind of 20th century Magic Flute, overloaded with symbolism but containing some of his most lyrically beautiful music. His next major work was the powerful opera King Priam, which marked a dramatic departure from anything he had done before. Spare, angular, dramatically taut, it has served as a jumping-off point for everything he is presently working on, notably a cantata drawn from the Confessions of St. Augustine, and a new and as yet untitled opera, which was commissioned by Covent Garden...