Word: vaughans
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...plight of the homeless were not enough, New Yorkers now have something really big to worry about: Is Mario Cuomo going to hell? From his Albany County jail cell, where he had been serving ten days for taking part in a militant antiabortion protest, Auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan of New York recently warned that the state's Democratic Governor "is in danger of going to hell if he dies tonight" unless he changed his stance on abortion. Cuomo, a Roman Catholic, accepts his church's teaching that abortion is wrong. But he argues that it would be imprudent to impose...
...matter, of course, could not end there. After Cuomo sardonically noted that he had been "cursed . . . even to hell," John Cardinal O'Connor, Vaughan's superior, declared that the bishop had the duty to warn any Catholic against pursuing a gravely evil course of action. Thus Vaughan's statement was in the tradition of saints like John the Baptist and Thomas More -- one of Cuomo's acknowledged role models -- who also reproached public figures from prison for misconduct...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has argued that if Cardinal O'Connor and Bishop Vaughan had been sounding off when Kennedy was running for President, he would not have been elected. True, but irrelevant. Whatever lingering suspicions exist about supposedly divided loyalties ought to have been dispelled by the number of lay Catholics, including former Democratic vice- presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who have taken a pro-choice position on abortion...
...throughout her three-decade career were commercial, Tin Pan Alley tunes ("What A Little Moonlight Can Do", "Them There Eyes", "I Cover The Waterfront"). she sang them in such an uncompromising, heartfelt style that she never gained the national popularity of more "acceptable" singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan...
...James 4-14 5-6 13; Ron Mitchell 4-7 10-16 18; Tarik Campbell 1-2 0-0 2; Matt McClain 4-10 1-2 9; Peter Condakes 3-8 5-5 11; David Lapointe 0-0 0-0 0; Jabbar Abdi 3-5 0-1 6; Matt Vaughan 0-1 0-0 0; Anikar Chhabra...