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...sorry. The Condors are everything that the Kesh are not: violent, destructive, acquisitive, caste ridden, competitive. "Everything they did," North Owl notes, "was war." High-born women are forced into lives of idle seclusion. All other females, along with foreigners and animals, are routinely abused as hontik. Condor warriors worship the god One and kill for his glory. North Owl concludes that her hosts are "a sick people destroying themselves" and yearns for the day when she can change her name to Woman Coming Home...
...center of the transformation is the country's aging leader, the shrewd and gritty party veteran who refers to the program of economic reform as China's "second revolution." Whether in reaction to the paroxysms of hero worship that accompanied Maoism or perhaps out of a personal sense of propriety, Deng Xiaoping has actively discouraged a personality cult for himself. His portrait does not adorn government offices, and his ancestral home in Sichuan, though well maintained, is virtually unknown to Chinese citizens. Still, the man and the "revolution" are inseparable, and Deng's personal popularity appears...
...liberal causes, Browning may find it prudent to heed warning signals from a 1985 Gallup poll of Episcopalians. Among the laity, 78% did not think it was the church's place "to be an agent of political change in the United States"; 76% thought the church should concentrate on "worship and spiritual matters" more than on political issues. From 1965 to 1983 the church suffered an 18% decline in membership, and a forthcoming book will warn that the Episcopalians and similar liberal denominations are aging far more rapidly than other religious groups and losing their ability to hold teenagers...
...liberals within mainline denominations, such as Methodist and Presbyterian groups, that hold membership in the National Council of Churches. These bodies tolerate a variety of beliefs. All true Fundamentalists, strictly speaking, belong to congregations or denominations that root out any hint of liberalism. As many as 10 million members worship in wholeheartedly Fundamentalist churches.* There are several times as many Evangelicals, both inside and outside the mainline groups. The largest Evangelical body, the 14.4 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, is now facing a powerful takeover campaign by its Fundamentalist wing...
...Power worship," many critics suggest, was the particular Mitford sin, and the Guinnesses partially agree. Diana, the beauty of the family, with passionate eyes set in a curiously passive face, showed "a potential for extremism." Translation: she fell in love with British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley and the ideas he believed...