Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revelator." That was well past the age when many Protestant church leaders retire, even past the recommended retirement age (75) that Pope Paul VI has set down for Roman Catholic bishops. But when he died last week of acute heart congestion at the age of 96, even his final years of feebleness could not dim the conviction that David O. McKay had done more in his 19-year tenure to change the image and direction of the Mormon Church than any president since Brigham Young himself...
...hesitate to predict the end of the world, or at least the end of a life with quality. Yet they hold out hope too. "We are in a period of grace," says Commoner. "We have the time?perhaps a generation?in which to save the environment from the final effects of the violence we have done...
...result, downstream erosion may wash away as much productive farm land as is opened up by new irrigation systems around Lake Nasser. Without the nutrient-rich silt reaching the Mediterranean, the Egyptian sardine catch declined from 18,000 tons in 1965 to 500 tons in 1968. As a final penalty, irrigation projects on the delta plain have allowed a moisture-loving snail to thrive. Since it carries schistosomiasis, most of the delta people have had that agonizing liver and intestinal disease...
...starting out simply. "Our Father in heaven." There are other changes in the familiar prayer as well. "Forgive us our trespasses" ("Forgive us our debts" in most Protestant versions) becomes simply "Forgive us our sins." "Lead us not into temptation" becomes "Do not bring us to the test" (the final test just before the Second Coming). American bishops have decreed that the old version will still be used in U.S. Masses, though a "Protestant-style" doxology-"For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever"-will now follow it after a prayer by the celebrant...
These qualities of mind and art are never better summed up than in the book's final poem, "Prologue at Sixty." Now beginning to listen to thoughts of his own death "like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," the poet remains stubbornly tentative to the end. Part prayer, part history lesson, "Sixty" links Auden in his Austrian retreat to the Northern barbarian races-with whom Auden has always been conscious of kinship-and the long sweep of European history. "Turks have been here, Boney's legions,/ Germans, Russians, and no joy they brought." The medium through...