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...death that the apostle Paul brought Christianity to Cyprus, and Paul's companion, Barnabas, became the island's first bishop and patron saint. In 431, the Council of Ephesus awarded self-government to the church in Cyprus, and its archbishop ranked fifth in Orthodoxy's rigid hierarchy, after the patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem...
...includes a political science course on political parties and pressure groups taught by a man who should know: Robert Horgan, a Ph.D. from Notre Dame who is also mayor of Dubuque. Twelve hours of philosophy and 14 hours of theology are required, but the academic atmosphere is far from rigid. "A freer academic atmosphere is opening up," says Edmund Demers, a lay member of the faculty. "In the old days, Catholic schools were more concerned with virtue than intellectual achievement. We're still concerned with virtue, but we see college as an intellectual unfolding." A philosophy student says that...
Gartner said he was "not terribly concerned with overt discrimination." He observed that the low number of Negroes employed tends to "build up a rigid system." This is so, he said, since many employees obtain jobs through people who already work at the Bick, and because Negroes are discouraged from applying for a job when they see that most of the employees of an establishment are white...
...based not on any value but on an accident of geography stemmed not from courage and honor but from wrong and shame, descended to him." Roth decrees that Henry must sleep on a pallet on the floor. This primal wrong and first denial of equality leaves Roth in "a rigid fury of the grief he could not explain, the shame he would not admit." Just how far Mississippi's troubles extend back into history is examined in Absalom, Absalom! That history is inexorably racial. The novel mercilessly strips away the romantic Southern mythology to reveal the brutal repression...
...misdemeanor to take ice and requiring standard accounting procedures for all productions. Then last week the League of New York Theaters -which includes theater owners and producers-announced its own new codes of ethics covering ticket sales and production practices. In many instances the rules were more rigid than the state legislation...