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CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS...
...rights and obligations." Roots often has a flattened, cartoon quality: the whites nearly all villainous, the blacks uniformly heroic. Africa is romanticized to the point that it seems a combination of 3rd century Athens and Club Méditerranée, with peripatetic philosophers afoot and Claude Lévi-Strauss expected for dinner...
...Rome, Mondale met for an hour with Pope Paul VI, who praised Carter's hopes to halt the global arms race. The Vice President gave the Pope a presidential Inaugural medal, adding, "I would have liked to give you a copy of the Inauguration speech, signed by President Carter, but my efficient staff left it on the plane." To which the Pope replied benevolently, "You have a very young staff. I am astonished...
...that many of the major Protestant churches accept women as ministers, expectations have been aroused that the Roman Catholic Church might also abandon its tradition of an exclusively male priesthood. Pope Paul VI chilled those hopes in 1975 when he declared that such a change would not be "in accordance with God's plan for his church." Nonetheless, delegations of U.S. Catholic priests, nuns and laity meeting in Detroit last October appealed publicly for the ordination of women priests. Last week the Vatican formally declared that no matter what other churches may do, the Roman Catholic Church "does...
...have been looking at them for the past 50 years. Now they have no heart. Once they had depth and modulation; now they are flat, and the light does not change. Before the light would play on them, but now they look like a bad copy of 19th century vi-traux." Moreover, the critics asserted, the plastic film ruined a centuries-old patina that lay under the dirt. "It transforms the stained glass into sample colored glass," snapped Bazaine. "Clarity is substituted for light...