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...read “Death and the Maiden,” an award-winning play by Ariel Dorfman, he was underwhelmed. “I got the message but didn’t like the dialogue,” he says. “I wanted more action or tension. Something seemed missing...
...steps of my dorm—Thayer South—that morning in ’69 that the bust took place. The Beatles song “Revolution” was blaring from a stereo in Weld Hall. All that afternoon, as the tension was building, my room became Ground Zero for all the reporters. It was on the first floor, so when the guys from the Washington Post and The New York Times needed a phone, they’d come knocking. Something would happen and they would need to get to a phone immediately—such...
...free to take issue with my views, but to suggest that they are inappropriate because they differ with his own is in fact to miss the whole point of the sermon: religious people who take both their faith and their citizenship seriously live in a not-easily resolved tension where patriotism neither trumps faith nor is to be confused with it. The conversation out of that tension is what is required and is so profoundly lacking in this present crisis. It’s the duty of the clergy to speak to such things, unpopular as that may prove...
...read “Death and the Maiden,” an award-winning play by Ariel Dorfman, he was underwhelmed. “I got the message but didn’t like the dialogue,” he says. “I wanted more action or tension. Something seemed missing...
...which the Lord delights in “love, justice, and righteousness,” Gomes goes on to assume without argument that a war in Iraq would run contrary to these values—as though he has found, along with the case of Nazi Germany, an obvious tension between commitment to God and commitment to country. That conclusion does not follow in any straightforward way from the Scripture Gomes cites, and to lump Nazism and the Bush administration together as didactic examples would be risible if it weren’t so offensive...