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...this modern capitalism seemed to be on the verge of producing the permanently affluent society. Keynesian policies had kept recessions brief, mild and infrequent; the end of World War II opened the longest period of sustained growth ever. American Economist George Stigler announced that "economics is finally at the threshold of its Golden Age?nay, we already have one foot through the door...
...last day of July 1916 summarizes his lifelong attempt to reconcile Catholicism and modern science: "My mission = very humbly but ceaselessly to take part in sanctifying natural progress, evolution, by revealing ... its sacred end." On the day after Christmas 1917, he wrote: "We are going over a threshold in the history of dogma -we must break a shell, the shell of complacent belief in the possession of a universal explanation of the world...
...Threshold is frankly commercial...
...former employee at Spencer-Roberts. Rosner and Roberts used their public relations know-how last fall to push their training program. They put on a low-key ad campaign, supplemented with plugs by some of the nine staff members on local talk shows. Seven hundred would-be companions responded. Threshold has not yet advertised for paying clients, however, preferring to build up a stable of trained companions first. The applicants are psychologically screened to eliminate the unstable and any religious enthusiasts intent on deathbed conversions...
...dying bequests made to a companion will automatically go to a nonprofit corporation that Threshold is setting up to pay for companions to the indigent. The company is also branching out to sponsor workshops on dying for hospital personnel, the terminally ill and the general public. There may be more services to come. "Dying is spectacular," says Roberts. "I've even thought of making some kind of production out of it -like having the Mormon Tabernacle Choir come sing at your bedside, if you could afford...