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Outside the neo-Byzantine cathedral, more than 5,000 people jammed Victoria Street. Typically, the Pope worked the barricades, reserving his warmest enthusiasm for children. Most onlookers were Catholics-England is only 10% Catholic-but Protestant Housewife Val Weatherbee remarked: "A man of peace in a land of war." Added another, "I'm not a Catholic, but I believe this is my only chance to see an authentic saint...
...cities, towns, streets and landmarks that would receive new names. In addition, a special Cabinet committee has recommended up to 700 more name changes. According to these proposals, the capital's Rhodes Avenue, named for Rhodesia's founder, Cecil Rhodes, will become Marshal Tito Avenue. Victoria Street, named for Queen Victoria, will be Karl Marx Street. Stanley Avenue, honoring British Explorer Henry Morton Stanley, will be Vladimir Lenin Avenue...
...GEORGE F. WILL, philosopher and ruminator, is also George F. Will, human being. And his conservatism spills over from the political world to the personal idiosyncracies he shares with millions of readers. The man who named his daughter Victoria (nickname "Tory") aims his pen with equal vitriol at the designed hitter rule, modern art, and new cars with gaudy interior design. The admiration he expressed for Lech Walesa is no more important than his celebration of the ringing of bells (church, not door or phone), the National Cathedral, the Chicago Cubs, and the semi-colon...
...with the coitus-and narcotic-addled bliss of a youth set free from the narrow confines of hometown and ceremonial life. Theroux has also journeyed on the open road, but on a far more expansive one. Encompassing both adventure and introspection, he has recorded journeys from Victoria Station to Siberia, and back, in The Old Railway Bazaar; and from South Boston to the other up of America in The Patagonian Express. Calm and without the intensity of Kerouac, both books afford homebodies a glimpse of the world away from the crackerjack, automatic world of T.V. sets and interest rates...
...serious part of a global war might last no longer than several passionate kisses. That is why some bystanders witnessing the war of the Falklands find themselves almost charmed by its stately pace, its long preliminaries-the fleet steaming off from England as the Prime Minister quotes Queen Victoria; the weeks at sea as the foreign offices indulge in truculent communiqués and atavistic displays of national plumage. (The long interval between the patriotic eruption and the moment of actual contact also opens up room for negotiation.) A world apocalyptically armed has absorbed the notion that there will...