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Like Roth, Peter Tarnopol, the narrator of his main story, is a hater of patterns, above all the repetitions of success. "The golden boy of American literature" at 26, Tarnopol has "a boundless belief in my ability to win." Why not? He has "never before been defeated." Graduated summa cum laude from Brown after a triumphant Yonkers boyhood, he manages to convert Army service in Germany into a prizewinning novel, A Jewish Father...
...Friar Thomas Aquinas entered a chapel in Naples to say Mass before beginning a day of lecturing and writing. During the Mass, something profound happened to him: some kind of physical or nervous breakdown, perhaps accompanied by an overpowering mystical vision. Afterward, he ceased dictating his theological masterwork, the Summa Theologiae. "All that I have written," he explained to concerned friends, "seems to me like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me." He never wrote another line. Three months later-700 years ago last month-he died in a monastery on the way to a church council...
...period somewhat ruefully: "Has Einstein spoken? Fine, but really-if you look hard and long enough, it's all there in Aquinas. Are you looking for an aesthetic or political theory . . . applicable to the modern situation? Fine, read Thomas. Do you want an adequate contemporary theology? Master the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles." Even before the Second Vatican Council, some progressive Catholic theologians were abandoning the kind of worshipful Thomism Tracy describes. After the council had ushered in a new spirit of intellectual freedom in the 1960s, Thomas' fall into disfavor accelerated. His structured philosophy...
...best evidence of whether the White House summary is accurate. The summaries the White House has been leaking - but has refused to release to the public - were prepared for the use of Mississippi Senator John Stennis at the time when the White House wanted him to "authenticate" such summa ries after listening to the tapes. This plan collapsed when former Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox refused to agree with it - and was fired...
Besides Hughes and Maheu, who was ousted in an epic power struggle three years ago, those indicted were: Chester Davis, Hughes' longtime No. 1 attorney and chief counsel of Summa Corp., the umbrella organization that holds the casinos, Hughes Air West, Hughes Aircraft Co. and nearly all of Hughes' other properties...