Word: datedness
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Pope John's encyclical displays "dated rather than eternal wisdom," Niebuhr believes, in opposing birth control and ignoring the fast pace of population increase. But he refrains from laboring the point, "lest the professional anti-Catholics take too much courage. They regard the Roman church as a monster. It...
The new, jumbo-size Advocate (dated April, 1961) has finally lumbered its way to the newsstands. If a certain amount of deadweight had been lopped off before publication, it might have been a truly fine issue. As it is, this number still surpasses the quality of any other in at...
But his father's titled ghosts seem oddly dated in Welfare State England. Moreover, there is something lacking-the figure of the innocent but virtuous hero (Paul Penny feather of Decline and Fall, Adam Fenwick-Symes of Vile Bodies) whose reasoned view of an unreasoning world gave a special...
Hook is probably best known to the layman through his writings on public affairs, in which his position is similarly steadfast and similarly directed against what he regards as the extremes: for more than a decade, he has championed liberal anti-Communism against both the political left and right. In...
Cache sans Craft. A kind of nostalgic gallantry accounts for this whole maimed and meandering book. Author O'Connor is less concerned with the fates of Charlie Carmody and Father Kennedy than with the fate of the entire Irish-American community in an unnamed city that is obviously Boston...