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...ruins of a tumbled-down medieval castle in Hungary, a group of explorers this fall unearthed a 500-year-old pair of shoes. Radio Budapest remarked sardonically that the shoes were in better shape than most of the footwear produced in present-day Hungary. That is not as funny as it might seem. The problem of shoddy goods, long the bane of Communist nations, is seriously hampering new efforts to increase trade with the West. Last week, in a drive to upgrade the quality of industrial products, East Germany sent 20,000 faithful party stalwarts across the country to inspect...
McCarthyism is not completely dead, it is not just an abberation of the past. Communists are not allowed on American campuses today because the present-day McCarthies are afraid that students and faculty will suddenly find out how creative and relevant Marxists and Communists really...
...paradoxically, that Paul fails, as John did, to understand fully the theological thinking that underlies the council's spirit of renewal. Paul's favorite Catholic thinkers are Mantain and Etienne Gilson, who are radical enough by the standards of Italian textbook theology but outdated in comparison with the present-day work of Schillebeeckx. Yves Congar Karl Rahner and Hans Kiing...
...scene is present-day Berlin. The hero is Leon Spey, an Austrian-American Jew who has become a professor of literature, and is now the highly paid front man for a U.S. hotel chain. Spey is supposed to organize an opening-day celebration for the hotel outfit's newest aluminum and glass waterhole. He needs the cooperation of the aged and mysterious Prince Schatten, who runs a crumbling resort hotel on the border of East Berlin. The prince is guarded by a sinister doctor and his coldly beautiful blonde daughter. That is the start, but after that Novelist Morton...
...maintain a real wall of separation," he says. "It is much more fruitful to show how the church can reach .further to fulfill its mission of serving people. You don't change the doctrine of separation, but you consider it in the context of the needs of present-day society...