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...DEAL with his son's apparent insanity, Francis' father drags him before the bishop, a portly libertine who cares more about his lunch and his feud with the secular power of the local governor than about the ravings of a boy with a holy mission. His admonitions to refrain from "subverting the established order" ring as hollow as a parody of a dime-store dictator...
Kyle said on Wednesday that although she knew she was a contender for the position, she would refrain from comment until the University of Texas made an official announcement...
Little was left to chance. The much feared security command, KOPKAMTIB, ordered Indonesia's 125 million citizens to refrain from violence or even controversy. As a special precaution against the spreading of untoward ideas, Mission Impossible and The Untouchables were temporarily banned from the nation's air waves. Then the 920 delegates to the People's Consultative Assembly, a military-dominated body whose deliberations take the place of national elections, gathered in Jakarta's high-domed amphitheater to select Indonesia's President for the next five years...
ZWICK HAS FORMED an elaborate refrain of dance and eerie choral ritual. The cast leaps around the stage in simple leotard costumes as it enacts the joy of conquest of the pain of death, reciting biblical passages. Then the actors stop dead in their tracks, while one or two characters speak. A mounting dirge of Hebrew mourning songs is especially provocative...
...Swanson's crude hatchet job on my book, Behind The Berlin Wall. But minimal standards of journalistic honesty might at least have led Swanson to mention some of the book's major themes and findings, so the reader could judge for himself whether, as he argues, the Left should refrain from citicizing regimes like the East German one too loudly...