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Norman Mailer is one of the major writers on the American scene and his works have aroused a great deal of interest and controversy. Progressing from the war novel, The Naked and the Dead (1948) through his non-fictional work, The Armies of the Night (1968) to the award winning book, The Executioner's Song (1979) and his mystery novel, Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1984), mailer emerges as a writer who has his finger on the pulse of American consciousness. The book ...
Just as in the first millennium, the Cross was planted on the soil of Europe, and in the second on that of the Americas and Africa, we can pray that in the third Christian millennium a great harvest of faith will be reaped in this vast and vital continent, declared the Pope in Ecclesia in Asia that he released in Delhi in November, 1999. The synod is an ardent affirmation of faith in Jesus Christ the Saviour, and it remains a call to conversion, he told the ...