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While the Vatican was anchoring age-old religious views on sex, those who make a religion out of non-religion were decreeing the opposite in the name of freedom. In the current Humanist, a bimonthly magazine published for the American Humanist Association and the Ethical Culture movement, 34 sexologists have unveiled their "New Bill of Sexual Rights and Responsibilities...
Karen's case (TIME, Sept. 29) raises age-old medico-legal questions about human life-now complicated by technology's ability to keep gravely injured victims at the borders of survival. Is there a point at which incurable illness becomes living death? If so, is it permissible for someone's life to be deliberately cut off? And who has the right to make such a decision...
Some herbs have undisputed medicinal value. As Dorothy Hall points out in The Book of Herbs (Scribners; $7.95), to be published next month, "some of our old grandmothers' recipes are proving to be not so old-hat after all." For example, horehound, an age-old relief for coughs and sore throats, still sells briskly. Sage and mint teas, to name only two, are widely used to treat colds; and aspirin is made from salicylic acid, the essential chemical in willow bark, known as a palliative since the dawn of time. Safflower has long been grown for what...
...study of language has become something of a free-fire zone in recent years, with everyone who has the slightest interest in the subject eager to take a few pot shots at such age-old questions as "What is meaning?" Some public interest and amusement has been spurred by the intramural squabbling of Chomskians and neo Chomskians, generative semanticists and Modified Standard Theoreticians; and the narrow, doctrinaire character of those disputes has spurred people with a broader interest in language to join the fray. Walker Percy, a novelist (The Moviegoer, Love in the Ruins), sides with those who consider contemporary...
Ovens' Stench. The Hiding Place plunges Into perplexing religious issues, such as whether Christians should disobey the state and whether they should lie or steal to further a good cause. Most important is the age-old quandary of the existence of evil. One Ravensbrück inmate taunts Corrie by saying that a God who did nothing after smelling the stench from the extermination ovens must be either powerless or cruel. Corrie's reply is that "the same God that you are accusing came and lived in the midst of our world. He was beaten, he was mocked...