Reading Rat - October 1993

Articles, Essays, Reviews

Dancing With Professors: The Trouble With Academic Prose, by Patricia Nelson Limerick, The New York Times

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Corrected, by Paul V. Mankowski, First Things

Mediasaurus

by Michael Crichton, Wired, September/October 1993

To my mind, it is likely that what we now understand as the mass media will be gone within ten years. Vanished, without a trace.

(via Jack Shafer at Slate)

Archbishop Weakland calls Mother Angelica's statements 'disgraceful.' - Aug 14, 1993 telecast denoucing Catholic liberalism

National Catholic Reporter, October 1, 1993

In an Aug. 14 telecast Mother Angelica, founder and head of the EWTN, criticized the "destructive force" of the liberal church during the past 30 years. "For a half-hour she ranted and raved about all the |abuses' since Vatican Council II, according to her own personal judgment, which of course she equates with that of the Holy Father," Weakland wrote in his archdiocesan newspaper, the Catholic Herald. "She invited everyone who disagreed with her to leave the church."

October 1993

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October 21-23, 1993

Vacation at Sister Bay, Wisconsin. The Country House Resort.

1993-10-21

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