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...self-management of industrial enterprises by the workers, free democratic elections and the emergence of independent labor movements throughout the Soviet bloc. The last resolution was presumably the main source of the "anti-Sovietism" complained of by Moscow. The Council of Ministers' statement ended with an ominous vow to undertake "definite measures" for the "defense of socialism." A similar Politburo communiqué had previously warned of a "possible confrontation threatening bloodshed...
...June, Chapman, a born-again Christian, told the court that God had told him to plead guilty, and so he did, against the advice of his lawyers. At his sentencing last week, he announced a vow of silence and offered, as "my final spoken words," a passage from The Catcher in the Rye: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And, I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What...
Jesuits spend at least 15 years in the society before taking final vows. Unlike other Catholic orders, which vow chastity, poverty and obedience, top Jesuits are also bound to the Pope by a special pledge of fealty. Yet throughout history, Popes have accused them of arrogance and disobedience. In 1773 Clement XIV even suppressed the order because European governments and jealous clerics complained that Jesuits had too much power. The order was not revived until...
...beyond transient legalities, the strike opened the door upon a more primitive question: What is the worth (moral, financial, mystical) of a person's oath? What do we mean when we promise, when we vow, when we pledge our word? Whatever their union's legal case may be, the controllers did take an oath; was that not a binding deed? Many Americans found themselves distantly disturbed that what was once a matter of some human solemnity should be brushed aside as if it were merely a technical detail. The social edifice shuddered slightly; down in the basement...
...hatreds of a wealthy family in Washington, D.C. A senior bureaucrat, Maurice Halleck, head of the "Commission for the Ministry of Justice," has died, apparently by suicide, after seeming to confess to bribe taking. Halleck's two nearly grown children, drug-frazzled Kirsten and lard-witted Owen, vow to wreak vengeance on their gorgeous mother Isabel, and their father's best friend from boyhood, whom they take to be the killers. Here, as elsewhere, the author has far more energy than her characters, who sag into torpor when she busies herself with other scenes and lurch groggily back...