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...NATURE OF courage and the tenuous link between its moral and physical forms is a confusing, unexplored realm. What appear to be the most demanding alternatives -- charging or refusing to -- are actually only the simplest. If I Die in a Combat Zone poses no answers, only elucidates the basic dilemma. It is eloquent, and it is powerful, and at times, it is even bitterly funny. But it is only a war story...
...region takes place surprisingly quickly, given the youths' inexplicable behaviour and the resentment they engender as sons of the rich. When they are joined by the prissy prettiness of the future Ste. Clare Judi Bowker), who has accompanied St. Francis on many an interminable nature-walk, any tenuous suspension of disbelief crumbles. Although Zeffirelli spares us cinematic tricks of visions and revelations, his harping on a band of post-adolescent outcasts of society, in search of their lost youth and a Rousseauian utopia, mars the simplicity of the tale just as badly. Treating the legend of St. Francis...
There is also the diplomatic issue for the Bengali government of repatriating 93,000 Pakistani POWs (including 20,000 civilians) being held in India from the 1971 war. The POW issue is a crucial one, since it thus far has chilled the already tenuous diplomatic relations on the sub-continent...
...proposed Women's Studies Course. A group of women are seeking to initiate a course (or courses) dealing with "Women in Education," but they are meeting with difficulty since future appointments of the female faculty members, who they had hoped would teach the course, seem to be tenuous. The need for such a course is obvious in that the majority of both students and educators in the U.S. are women...
...criticisms, the differences between Eastern and Western spirituality may sometimes be more apparent than real, the assumed opposition more a matter of semantics than truth. At the root of both is man's continuing quest for the experience of the transcendent, which must work itself out among the tenuous and sometimes contradictory definitions of God, man and universe. The problem for Americans and others caught up in the West's renewed search for the sacred will be just how and where to strike a fruitful balance: between reason and imagination, between discipline and intuition, between a creative...