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...column"Our investigation turned up a number of disturbing facets of Burger's character, some previously reported and some not-but all ofwhich we confirmed. Put together, they reveal a complex, often contradictory individual: rigidly conservative, obsessively secretive, pompous, condescending, manipulative and possessed of a hair-trigger temper...
...holidays, they say, and especially Christmas, inflame neurosis, trigger depression, accentuate loneliness. The very expectation of joy becomes a source of gloom. Adults get pressured into the hypocrisy of mingling with people they do not like and going to churches they do not believe in. Children get confused by the Santa hokum; they wind up either addicted to greed by too many presents or ridden with envy by too few. Families obliged to reassemble are rent by old grudges set to festering again. Furthermore, since Christmas dominates the marathon Thanksgiving-to-New Year's celebrations, non-Christians get painful...
...cities is also likely to be reduced. The 95th Congress failed to renew counter cyclical assistance, which provides money for jobs when unemployment in an area reaches 4.5%. The White House will probably ask for a renewal of the program, but with the unemployment trigger pushed up higher, to 6% or 6.5%. The Administration expects to continue to support other parts of its urban program, including the proposed development bank to finance job-intensive projects in cities. But fewer funds will be provided...
...some 32,000 nuns, fully twice the 1938 figure. The faith penetrates nearly every level of society. A vigorous Catholic intelligentsia has grown up in the Communist years and developed a link with human rights activists. The regime fears to damp down lest it trigger more protest. Concedes one Communist official ruefully: "The church is an unofficial opposition...
...motives--makes her saintliness appear sinful and her vices sacremental. In retrospect she sees her decision to lose her virginity, for instance, as nothing but an attempt to shock her father into attention. Incestuous lovehate fro him made her sleep with his (only) disciple; perhaps she even intended to trigger her father's heart attack a few months later...