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Many Catholics believe that the council has already completed its essential job, in giving its imprimatur to worldwide currents of church renewal and in opening the doors to further free debate about still unseen change. Nonetheless, some Vaticanologists believe that a "purple backlash" of bishops whose zest for reform has cooled may temper the results of the council. Some U.S. prelates who privately shrug off their early enthusiasm for John XXIII may be inclined this session to side with the Roman Curia, which has worked skillfully to limit the council's powers. One sign of this veer toward conservatism...
...Dating from Czarist times, the names reflect that Russian gallows humor that Novelist Nikolai Gogol defined as "laughter seen by the world and tears unseen...
...current 75-minute production of the O'Neill is, in conception, a masterpiece; in execution, not far below--thanks to Jones and his collaborators seen and unseen. At the opening performance there were only a few rough edges, notably in the dancers ensemble rhythm...
Slow Surge. When Columbia's Dr. Theodore Pochapsky tossed his first buoys into the Caribbean, his calculations told him that they would move evenly with the deep-down currents, but to his surprise they were tossed by unseen waves. "Instead of remaining at a constant level," he says, "they bobbed incessantly in regular up-and-down swings of about ten feet." As the oceanographers looked farther, they also found submarine surges deep in the Atlantic east of Bermuda and as far south as the equator. All of them moved only fractions of a mile per hour...
...income housing in West Germany, threaten to do the same elsewhere. The land lust has also produced a longdistance effect: a Florida land boom in West Germany. Germans seeking "Lebensraum with a View" are biting hard at tempting lures dangled by U.S. real estate men offering Florida land, sight unseen, for as little as 5½? per square foot...