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Unthinkable? In fact, the current wave of censorship has precipitated two of the most outrageous episodes of book burning in the U.S. since 1927, when Chicago Mayor William ("Big Bill") Thompson, an anglophobe miffed by a view sympathetic to the British, had a flunky put the torch on the city hall steps _ to one of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr.'s books...
...whole movement is based on a syllogism of sorts, an air-tight prescription for the ill-at-soul. It's all laid out in a pamphlet, "God's Simple Plan of Salvation," issued by the same independent Baptists who are attempting to carry the torch to Capitol Hill. Since you are human, you are a sinner. Since you are a sinner, you will die and go to hell unless you save yourself by accepting Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. Since you will go to hell if you are not saved, obtaining salvation is the only thing that should...
...Olympics would probably never be in question. Yet as recently as July 14, Lord Killanin opened a session of the I.O.C. by expressing his great fear for the future of the Games "if politicians continue to make use of sport for their own ends." Steady as the Olympic torch, that sort of mindlessness has been passed from I.O.C. president to I.O.C. president, from Avery Brundage to Killanin, and soon, most likely, to President-elect Juan Antonio Samaranch, who sounds a lot like his predecessors. All owe their conventional wisdom, if not their tone, to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder...
...Bayfront Park stands the Torch of Friendship, erected as a symbol of the hope that someday, there would be friendship and understanding between all peoples of the Americas. Today the Torch of Friendship is a kind of sick joke...
...waning moments of a blistering hot New Delhi afternoon, the elder son of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi performed the ancient Vedic rites for the dead. Rajiv Gandhi, 35, put the torch to the funeral pyre that held the battered body of his younger brother Sanjay, who had died in an air crash the day before. The ceremony, attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners, brought a sudden and tragic end to the Gandhi family's dynastic hopes that Sanjay, 33, would eventually succeed his mother as Prime Minister of India...