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...MORE THAN FIVE YEARS that the state of Massachusetts has sanctioned legal abortions, not a single woman has died from the procedure. This statistic should not add fuel to the fire of either side of the moral debate; rather, it gives testament to the success of proper medical care in preventing desperate acts by panicked women. But while Massachusetts should be commended for being a frontrunner in the drive to provide quality care for abortion patients, its recent legislation belies the spirit of legalization and threatens to increase the death rate for pregnant women...
...loopy, hard-driving souvenir of a 1979-80 concert tour, has settled down comfortably in the higher altitudes of the Top 40, and these hardy perennials of British rock's golden age have just embarked on a two-month concert tour of the States. All this is ample testament to the surprising staying power of their antic stagecraft, disheveled musicianship and-particularly -to the cheeky satire and sideways poignancy of Ray Davies' music...
...trick, which no one has yet mastered, must be to choose one's friends so carefully that conflicts of loyalty do not arise. That may be why the New Testament generally ignores the idea of friendship: in order to suggest that individual friendships, like other temporal relationships, should be subsumed in Christianity. Yet Jesus loved John, and even Paul had friends. Whatever grand and lofty purpose friendship may serve, it is still most clearly recognized as something that one individual gives to another, something generous, expansive, akin to love but not exactly love. In a way, it is more...
...twisted. Certainly it is not carnal knowledge that does in our heroes, or the film would last only 45 minutes. On the other hand, they 'lude out on the red berries, the island's only forbidden fruit. And they celebrate Christmas, so maybe you have to read the New Testament to understand...
...since the Nazi Holocaust, the play has been a source of controversy as well as cash. Jews and liberal Christians alike have charged the play with antiSemitism. The recounting of Christ's Passion, though it is drawn from the New Testament, embroiders considerably upon the biblical accounts. The florid script, rewritten from older versions in 1860 by Parish Priest Joseph Alois Daisenberger, fixed blame for the Crucifixion totally upon the Sanhedrin and the Jewish rabble, which amateur actors portrayed with much shaking of angry fists and fiendish cries for Jesus' blood. After the Second Vatican Council declared...