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...report spoke with charity of attempts to rehabilitate four-and five-letter words, such as those used by D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover and by Wayland Young in Eros Denied; it advocated accepting "neutral terms like penis, vagina and ejaculation" in the universal English vernacular...
Pope Paul called the Second Vatican Council "the beginning not the end" of renewal in the Roman Catholic Church, but apart from the vernacular liturgy, change has come slowly. To get on with reform, a study group of the Canon Law Society of America-representing the U.S. experts who teach and explain the church's juridical code-met this month in Pittsburgh and put forth a series of recommendations for carrying out the spirit of Vatican...
...only the public's failure to report crime to the police which clouds our knowledge. In many cities the police themselves are, in the vernacular, "killing" crime. Thus, it has become a common pattern for the crime rate to go up in the first year of a new chief's administration, since one of his first reforms is to take steps to improve reporting...
...range of choice from secular indifference to Reform permissiveness to the strict Halakic observance of the Hasidim. Jews-and Protestants too-are aware that pluralism offers risks as well as rewards: indifferentism, sectarian quarrels, doctrinal anarchy. Yet just as Catholicism accepted the precedent of other faiths in adopting a vernacular liturgy and a belief in the primacy of conscience, it may come to embrace the Protestant and Jewish acceptance of fiery dissent within the community of faith...
Montale has been called "the Italian Eliot," and the comparison is not an idle one. Like Eliot, he stood during the '20s in the vanguard of the poetic revolution that introduced the vernacular into verse. Like Eliot, he has written very little (three volumes of verse and three of criticism), but that little he has written with iridescent precision. Like Eliot, he was infected with the century's accidia, sank into morbid pessimism, rose again in religious hope. Unlike Eliot, however, Montale has not trained his spirit to the lattice of traditional theology; his God is a rough...