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...obvious to those Libyans who might have had their houses destroyed by a stray air-to-ground missile that the War Powers Act still leaves much of the commander-in-chief's actions to his own caprices. Some non-revisionist historians might realize that 60 days neatly covers nearly all of the battles of the recent, billion-dollar-a-day Gulf...
These nine plays spanning seven hours -- and two centuries -- aspire to nothing less than a history of America, mythic in scale yet humbly rooted in the evolving fate of the same few hundred acres of Kentucky. Playwright Robert Schenkkan proves a spectacularly vivid revisionist, underscoring the violence, exploitation, multiracial antagonism and unchecked injustice of our past. Produced at Seattle's Intiman Theater and Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, this was the first Pulitzer Prize drama not seen in New York City and is thus a triumph for all regional theater...
...surprising that the Catholic clergy would want stifle dissent. After all, they have a vested interest in keeping their titles and privileges, even if it means withholding the truth from their followers. It does not take a bleeding-heart liberal or a historical revisionist to acknowledge that countless atrocities have been committed over the years in the name of the Catholic Church...
Jesuit Joseph Fessio, publisher of Ignatius Press and Catholic World Report, remarks that fellow conservatives have worried for years about "revisionist pressure groups operating on the new English translation for their own ends." When the Vatican first gave permission in 1963, parishes clamored for rituals in English. Its pedestrian style aside, the current English Mass was prepared before liturgists began to champion gender-inclusive language...
...Cutting down forests will help the animals. Save nature by destroying it. Tisdale calls this "revisionist biology" and it's dangerous stuff--totally contrary to fact...