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Even in its early stages, the journey was providing still more evidence that this Pope, with his obvious delight in people and lack of formality, would not be bound by custom and precedent. Once more, John Paul II was proving that he was exactly as his aide described him: a born leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: John Paul's Triumphant Tour | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Separation of Church and State" had as its agenda the rollback of the alleged Catholic takeover of the American (nee Protestant) system including the public schools; through lectures and a best-selling book The People's Padre, ex-priest Emmett McLoughlin exposed contemporary Romish abuses to the delight of many...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes, | Title: Puritan Boston Prepares For the Polish Pontiff | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...designed three of the most sumptuous sets to be seen on Broadway, and to Peter and Garry Foy, who supervised the flying sequences. Under their direction, flying seems not only effortless, but fun. In one spectacular moment at the end, Duncan even soars over the balcony, an extra delight for those who stay for the curtain calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Remembrances Of Things Past | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...plot, the storyteller's hokum in which the revelation of character is only incidental to the tedious march of exposition, complication, resolution. Director Jean-Charles Tacchella's likable Cousin. Cousine managed this difficult trick; it simply showed two ordinary but agreeable people falling in love and taking delight in each other, utterly without benefit of story. Kurys tries for the same artful simplicity. She introduces an appealing girl of 13 named Anne (Eléonore Klarwein) and her more worldly and matter-of-fact sister Frédérique (Odile Michel), who is 15. The director merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Small Events | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...policy pronouncements, which constituted an implicit warning to the Soviets. "Any nation," said Mondale, "which seeks to weaken or isolate you in world affairs assumes a stance counter to American interests." At a Peking news conference, Mondale said that Communist Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng had accepted "with delight" an invitation from President Carter to visit the U.S. some time next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mondale Crosses the Boundary | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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