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Pope Paul VI, who has strongly urged all Roman Catholic bishops to retire at 75, turns 75 himself in September. In April, when Italian newspapers were speculating that Paul might be the first Pope in modern history to resign the Pontiff gave a talk to some nuns in which he...
Certainly not, and it didn't take a degree in social relations to notice the wistful tone of his voice. Another highly-touted Princeton lightweight conglomerate had bitten the dust, and one could sense the frustration in Fischer's words. Fischer had watched from the launch in disbelief as Harvard...
At the church's General Conference in Atlanta, which wound up last week, Ohio Bishop F. Gerald Ensley identified "the decline of Christian belief" as the cause of much of the Methodist malaise. Ensley's address, which was endorsed by all 95 bishops, said the church contains many...
With music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, the show is full of bits and pieces of waltzes, rhapsodies and tangoes and about as far away from typical Broadway fare as its setting in the Budapest of the 1930s. Eschewing razzmatazz show-stoppers, She Loves Me depends instead...
ONE of William Steig's bitingly wistful little cartoons bears the caption: