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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Even in states and cities where there is no major disagreement about specific grants, the pocketbook rebellion has been sharp. Gaps between diocesan pledges and quotas for 1970 set by the last General Convention were impressive even on a local scale: $425,000 below quota in New York City, $239,000 in Los Angeles, $146,000 in Dallas. In all, the pledges were more than $3.5 million below the national budget quota of $14.7 million. Modeste was undisturbed. In his official report last March, he had written that "the Church, the temporal, institutional body of Christ, must be willing...
...play is set in a Stalinist "correctional" prison camp in 1945. It is a place Solzhenitsyn calls "the invisible nation," where "99 men weep and one man laughs." Most of the prisoners are "politicals" whose sentences run from ten to 25 years. Their crimes? "Failure to turn informer." Reading a poem unsanctioned by the regime. Writing a letter calling Stalin "the man with the moustache" and commenting ironically on how bad his Russian is-for which "crime" Solzhenitsyn himself spent eight years in Russian prisons. The prisoners' horizon is a gray-black wall. High up on the wall...
...flippant, Candice can well afford drawing-room sallies and wry self-deprecation. Recalling growing up as Edgar Bergen's daughter, she says: "One may not turn out exactly normal when you have two wooden dummies for brothers, each with his own room." Or her days with the jet set: "That was a valuable exposure to the ultimate in boredom." Or her screen performances: "I'm great at the physical stuff: running, riding, jumping. Acting-that's another story...
...refer to certain similarities between your own recollections, which you note having recorded in some sort of memory book, and those of Ganin, the main character in Mary. You seemed puzzled at having found that many of said details were more vivid in their fictional context than when you set them down years later as autobiography. However, your explanation that Ganin was closer in time to the details than you were as an autobiographer is too hasty. May I direct your attention to Ada, a bestseller about time and memory in which an elderly gentleman conjures up his distant past...
...during a bank robbery, a bomb exploded, hurling lethal nails into the air. Astonishingly, no one was hurt. In racially tense Cairo, Ill., one night last week, as many as 20 rifle-carrying blacks in Army fatigues attacked the police station three times in six hours. Near by, arsonists set two stores ablaze, and when fire equipment failed to appear, anonymous callers phoned police and fire officials, demanding to know, "When are you going to send in the pigs?" Says San Jose Police Chief Ray Blackmore, "You hate to use the word, but what's going on is a mild...