Capitol Ideas/King David's Royal Family
Bethell, Tom
de lettres, and the lovable paterfamilias. Only in the America of the 1970s could such a thing grow so eminent. Now the mood has changed, and Will is under fire. He has long been the occasional...
...Visited by Mother Teresa and Cardinal O'Connor, who asked David to pray for him...
...Most of these shocking allegations were recently packed into a widely read essay in the New York Review of Books, written by a former Carter speechwriter...
...They remained industriously about their business, and didn't linger much to chat...
...But it took all these years of pain and suffering to find it...
...To others with the same illness he would say: "Now is the time to give back something to God, even if only prayer...
...Several times sherepeated that they were a family...
...They do...
...As he proceeded he explained every procedure simply and yet seriously...
...Juan received Communion...
...I also briefly met a sister from Portsmouth, England, and another from Chicago...
...Later Tbm told me that Walter was "searching, inquisitive...
...A team of 40 Columbia professors collaborated on it, including historians, economists, political scientists, sociologists, biologists and astronomers...
...Wore Rosary around his neck...
...Over the years, you'll turn to the Columbia History to explore new areas of interest and reread the sections that have always fascinated you...
...I want to be baptized as a Catholic...
...even in familiar subjects, we're sometimes a bit hazy on the sequence of events...
...In the end they ask for Christ...
...The house is an archdiocesan building, formerly the rectory of St...
...He said that some resolutely exclude the truth, "keeping up a front even tothe grave...
...There are whole eras and countries we know nothing about...
...We shared a room together...
...And yet through faith my understanding slowly opens up...
...Taken to hospital and received First Communion a few days later...
...In the hall was a picture of Mother Teresa above the caption: "Unless life is lived for others it is not worthwhile...
...Would go out to get more drugs...
...Started drugs age 14, prison record...
...A book of world history, particularly an excellent one like the Columbia, can fill the gaps in our learning and give us a solid chronological framework...
...Vincent's Hospital, aged 34...
...In her comments, Sister Dolores was marvelously appreciative of the individuality of each patient, as though she had not only King David in her care but his royal family as well...
...I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit . . ." Thomas Peter stood in a white plastic receptacle as the water was poured over his head—enough of it to streak his dark-colored work clothes...
...He has long been the occasional target of conservatives, critical of his particular enunciation of the conservative canon...
...He had been fortunate enough to meet Mother Teresa at the house...
...They are very unhappy people, and where they dwell they have created a mood of petulance and meanness...
...On his return stateside there were "baby killer" signs in Oakland, rotten eggs and vegetables thrown at soldiers...
...From the beginning was grateful to be with the sisters...
...Tom had become Thomas and he had chosen the additional name of Peter...
...And as for his celebrity, these days people from all walks of life are being raised to celebrity status owing to a synergism between communications technology that allows it and a national appetite that is aflame for it...
...The Columbia History is a perfect addition to anyone's library because it is both a well-written historical narrative and an authoritative reference work...
...But with so much fire—fire for goodness...
...I blame nothing...
...I've had so many people go before me, who died...
...streamers in yellow and white, celebrating the fact that one of the men was going to be baptized that after-noon...
...One day prayed Our Father in bed, said it was first time he had ever prayed...
...Later Tbm told me about Juan...
...Sister Dolores showed me where the THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1986 13 men slept—two to a room...
...When he first came he couldn't sit down for five minutes...
...But practically all of them wish to die at home," she said, "because they know we will keep them company...
...I sat next to Tom, an intuitive soul and no doubt a dude in his day...
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...He didn'twant any fuss...
...A Book of Permanent Value—for Only $9.95 Unlike most books today, the Columbia History has enough reading material for several lifetimes of reading...
...In one a pale man with spinal meningitis looked across at me in an amnesic fugue, groping at his goatee as though trying to recall a face...
...It begins with an M." Walter was curmudgeonly...
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...Loose woman...
...I don't think I would have ever come to God withoutthis...
...Like Harvey, he wore a rosary around his neck...
...They live their religion...
...But now he is being criticized from other quarters and for different transgressions, for in-stance, his stupendous salary, celebrity, dinner parties with the giants of society, wanton use of scholarly quotations, reluctance to pound the pavement for news stories, and failure to kill thousands of Communists during the late war in Vietnam...
...He went with his parents to the Church of God Forbes CapitalistTool® Forbes Magazine 60 Fifth Ave, N Y NY 10011 14 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1986 in Christ in Harlem...
...No one in the crowd wanted to help...
...To its babble Will could plausibly respond that illustrative quotations are useful...
...His mother said later that David had taught her much and she wanted to be baptized as well...
...The hallway and stair-case were decorated with Easter-style Tom Bethel/ is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent...
...It ain't nothin' to celebrate, sister...
...The NYRB piece was muddled to the point of imbecility...
...Call me Brother Harvey...
...Used to wear a pony tail...
...He never set out to be a reporter...
...He expired most peacefully...
...Sister Dolores read the Gospel as he expired in great peace...
...She hung out," said Tom, almost to himself, as he looked down at a pride of Geographic lions in his lap...
...Walter had been in the house only two weeks...
...He was El Diablo...
...Editors Peter Gay and John A. Garraty, both eminent historians and writers, interwove the material into a cogent narrative of the world's history...
...Do you renounce Satan and all his works...
...Sometimes he would spend all day there...
...No better feeling in this world...
...It will be shown on TV worldwide on December 8. Tom had used drugs in Vietnam "to ease the strain," he said...
...To our right as we entered was the chapel, dominated by a large realistic crucifix on the wall, next to the words I THIRST...
...Didn't do much walking.' His face was bleeding where he fell...
...Dept...
...Because he is the only way out ofthis...
...He was given white shirt and trousers to wear...
...Evidently theirs is an ecumenical view of salvation...
...C A P I T O L I D E A S KING DAVID'S ROYAL FAMILY by Tom Bethell Ralph Dyer drove me to the four-story house just off Christopher Street, in Greenwich Village, where Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity run a home for AIDS patients...
...Most of these middle-aged potentates do not call themselves radicals anymore...
...Here are abbreviated versions of written accounts of three men, all white, who died recently in the sisters' care: Dennis: Aged 42, at house for five months...
...She said that most of the men have died in one or another of the nearby hospitals, because the sisters don't havemuch in the way of sophisticated medical equipment...
...Tom grew up in Brooklyn...
...Its scope is monumental, covering all aspects of our history from the beginning of the universe to the present day...
...Will must understand that the mood in the mediahas changed because large numbers of the youthful idealists of the 1960s are coming to power there, in the publishing houses, and in the universities...
...He said he was completely free of drug addiction...
...A 40-year-old black man, he has been in the house since April (and was diagnosed with AIDSin January...
...But they despise it...
...I can get on my knees and pray and feel refreshed...
...The day before he died he received the Sacraments and Father Greg gave him the Last Sacraments that afternoon...
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...Next to him sat his good friend Juan (slight build in a Nike T-shirt), lost in his thoughts...
...One day he wanted to go back"here Tbm explained that "all of us have tried it, and we all have our scars to show for it...
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...And inside I want to tell the world...
...Sister explained that Mary Magdalene had been the first to see Jesus after the Resurrection...
...She says little things—but from them come oak trees...
...It was opened on Christmas Eve, 1985...
...Tom said how much the neighborhood had deteriorated...
...Most of the men said they wanted to die that way...
...Columbia University Presents The History of the World in One Brilliant Volume...
...He was placidly flipping through an old National Geographic...
...On Westchester Avenue he fell on the street," Tom went on...
...There is also periodic religious instruction...
...Heaven Is Our Time Home," it said above the list...
...Fourteen men with AIDS were living there...
...One thing that Sister Dolores wanted to emphasize at the outset was that they don't try to convert anyone who doesn't specifically ask for it...
...We drove through the shattered glass and derelict structures of Brownsville, many of them boarded up with ply-wood...
...Sister Dolores, the superior of the house, came out to greet us wearing the white, blue-trimmed sari of the Missionaries of Charity...
...But it would be better...
...I've put a million dollars in this one arm over 18 years...
...And I want to be a part of that...
...Had a long history of drugs...
...I do...
...At first so demanding the sisters called him King David, which pleased him...
...When he had a headache he said he thought of it as the Crown of Thorns...
...He used to give the sisters hell...
...If you say so I'll go...
...Military service in Vietnam...
...David: Died in St...
...The Story Behind the Columbia History The creation of the Columbia History was among the most important scholarly projects of recent years...
...They have thrust the utopianism of their youth into the sentimental chambers of memory and turnedtheir minds to smaller things: thy neighbor's salary, thy neighbor's celebrity, his tax returns...
...They are irked by the success and happiness of their fellow citizens, especially those who are right about large matters while these neos have been absorbed with the picayune...
...Ignoring the sisters' advice, Juan went to the South Bronx by subway...
...Was visited by Cardinal O'Connor, also Mother Teresa...
...Each scholar contributed sections on his subject or period of expertise...
...But don't despair...
...By contrast he noted the "sympathetic influence" of Mother Teresa's sisters...
...Presbyterian background...
...When he came back he was baptized in the chapel...
...I can't do no great works...
...He continued using drugs (heroin and cocaine), "all for a fleeting feeling, and then you go out and get more money to chase that feeling...
...But in the end they grasped the peace...
...She entered the novitiate in Calcutta in 1960, but beyond that she discouraged questions about herself...
...Expressed a desire to die in the house and was the second to do so...
...I guess I've been starving for it so long...
...Most of the men I had seen that morning were waiting in the chapel...
...Then he went outside and returned, like Harvey before him, wearing white trousers and shirt...
...His wife, daughter, and especially his son hugged him emotionally...
...He said `Tom, I got tired...
...Teach me to pray," he said...
...Some had longer tails than the devil...
...Ralph Dyer drove us across the Brooklyn Bridge to pick up Tbm's wife and two children, who were to attend the baptism...
...He had received "hundreds" of blood transfusions while on kidney dialysis, he said...
...Life got to be a big dull pain...
...When asked if he wanted to go to heaven he said, "Yes, but I don't want to leave this house...
...Surely, that's a small price to pay for a life-long investment in'learning and a reference you'll turn to often...
...Four or five nuns (or sisters as they are usually called) work in the house, devoting their lives to the patients...
...He was to be baptized later...
...You will have an ever-growing understanding of Western civilization's origins and progress, plus an expanding awareness of non-Western history and culture...
...It was hard to tell what impression it all made on the other patients, most of whom sat impassively throughout the ceremony...
...Welcome Home My Sons...
...My ace man, a very blessed man I think...
...As with most puritans the neoliberals' fundamental flaw is a curiously abbreviated sense of honor...
...Taken to hospital one night very sick...
...They are narcissists and they believe that in the natural order of things George Will's money and fame should be theirs...
...Don't tell me what to do!' Now he's as gentle as a lamb...
...Listen to the men talk beautiful and see the people do the opposite...
...The last date was July 2, and beneath it there was ample empty space...
...Two volunteers were working in the kitchen in back...
...More and more was coming to God...
...Otherwise the house was silent...
...When al-ready very weak was unexpectedly at mass one day...
...And any Miracle that comes will come through him...
...Died early the next morning...
...Long history of drugs...
...This classic work represents the best efforts of Columbia University's most renowned scholars...
...They would have found me in the street...
...Broke all Ten Commandments many times over...
...So maybe he got AIDS that way...
...I am in close contact with God...
...He sat and talked with a completely relaxed candor and tranquility for an hour or more...
...Veronica's Church...
...But the people weren't living what they were talking about," he said...
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...Nearly 100 distinctively drawn and rigorously reasearched maps visually document the world as it evolved from the ancient past to the brooding present...
...one who had perpetrated a kissand-tell piece about the Carter Ad-ministration even before his former boss had vacated the White House...
...I know, because some of his tormentors have sought my collaboration...
...Out-side was a sign, "Gift of God, Missionaries of Charity...
...Even in sickness you can bear the pain, because you share the pain with Christ...
...Once he said he would take all our sins, put them together like clay, and put it before Jesus on Cross...
...His wife and two children were waiting for us, all dressed up for church...
...There are people here who want what I am receiving...
...She was "like a quiet storm that will shake you," he said...
...Men were changing clothes in the plane so as not to be seen in uniform...
...They have seen the nation turn its back on their New Dawns and other claptrap dreams, and it makes them very cross...
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...With us was Ann Petrie, who with her sister Jeanette recently produced the feature-length film "Mother Teresa," five years in the making...
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...Does anyone know who she was...
...Like the sisters and following the Indian custom, he was barefoot in the chapel...
...A high salary is as morally neutral as a low salary...
...Frequently these morbid puritans call themselves neoliberals...
...Just think on it...
...His face reminded everyone of Jesus on the Cross...
...Please rush me copies of the Columbia History of the World at your special sale price of $9.95 (plus $1.25 postage and handling...
...Hot blood...
...They know what you are saying is true...
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...I used to...
...It made me think of Christ on the way to Calvary...
...July 22, two days away, was Walter's birthday...
...Does anyone know whose feast day that is...
...Earlier I had talked to Tom alone in the chapel...
...Sister Dolores, who is from India, ushered me into the small front parlor...
...Came to house in March...
...They have mass and say the rosary every day, and I gathered most of the patients do attend...
...One day he was lying there and he said, `They used to call me Indio.' I said, 'I remember you, you was a killer man!' The terror of South Bronx...
...Tivo white people got out of a car and put him in an ambulance...
...She took me to a room where eight men were seated, most wearing dressing gowns or T-shirts...
...But with an IV drug record, they blame it on the drugs," he said...
...And he was changing...
...Harvey: The first to die in the house...
...It's according to whether they say `I want,' " said Sister Dolores...
...Posted nearby was a sheet of paper listing names and "departure" dates of the nine men who have died since the house was opened...
...They will now take out their peevishness on George Will and on any others whose misdemeanor it was to have been right when they were wrong...
...Father Greg turned out to be a cheer-fully extroverted Australian, who in the course of a sermon actually used the much caricatured Australian expression "fair dinkum" (meaning, roughly, "true...
...I used not to be able to talk about these things...
...They say, `Oh God have mercy!' "Strange sounds from men who cursed and blasphemed...
...Sister Dolores asked...
...Incredible as it sounds, most_ of them have learned nothing through the years, beyond the troublesome truth that an ample salary is even more important than being mellow...
...All were black, Puerto Rican, or Cuban...
...Attached great importance to the rite...
...Walter listened attentively as she told the story...
...Mary Magdalene," said Sister Dolores, answering her own question...
...Most Americans are optimistic and brimming with benevolence, but not the neoliberals...
...We were admitted by a volunteer worker...
...I imagine that each and every one needs reassurance to try to grasp Christ...
...Why Everyone Needs a World History Let's face it—most of us, whatever our educational credentials, have large gaps in our knowledge of history...
...As we drove along he pointed out "the famous Brooklyn library," and "the famous Brooklyn Museum...
...Yet these refutations are not going to end George Will's public trials...
...But everything is voluntary...
Vol. 19 • September 1986 • No. 9
