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...well past dawn on Tuesday. Many speakers associated the absence of prayer in schools with such social evils as drug abuse and sexual promiscuity. Virginia Republican Frank Wolf charged dramatically that the rate of teen-age suicides "began to climb at approximately the same time that the schools were withdrawn from prayer two decades ago." House Democratic leaders, anxious to do nothing that might stigmatize their party as antireligious, stood aside and let the speakers orate on a matter that technically was not up for consideration. "God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat," said Majority Leader James Wright...
...moral sensibilities that during the past three years eight million more Americans have slipped below the poverty line. It doesn't anger them that Black unemployment is double that of white, and that programs and benefits that had once been the cushion between subsistence and deprivation have been abruptly withdrawn...
Assad could well afford the gesture. After months of chaos and bloodshed, Syria was in a position to exercise de facto suzerainty over much of Lebanon. In contrast, the Reagan Administration, its Marine contingent withdrawn to the safety of the U.S. flotilla off the shores of Beirut, was reduced to the role of passive spectator...
...clear. Says Biographer Barbara Guest: "She had an assortment of ideas and events that were repetitious; they were thoughts and images that might be embellished by her reading, or actual experiences never to be relinquished." The remark may explain why the poet on the page appears static and obsessively withdrawn, and the aura of the poet-priestess seems theatrical and self-indulgent. Excerpts from her letters are forgettable; she has little to say about other writers, and does not appear to have seriously concerned herself with the social and political events of her exciting times. World War II found...
...brain hemorrhage; in Vienna. Mother Pasqualina met Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli in 1918 when he was papal nuncio in Munich, moved with him to the Vatican and, after he was elected Pope in 1939, became the channel through which outsiders had to pass to gain access to the ascetic, withdrawn Pontiff...