From 1969: The difficulties encountered by those who worked long and hard to give us a truly contemporary prayer language in English are here set forth by one who participated in the mammoth task.
From 2000: Perhaps the N.R.A. has met its match. All the money in the world cannot contend with the rage of a mother torn from her child.
From 1997: While I am eager to live, I am also eager to take the journey when God calls me.
For the Feb. 23, 1974, issue, the editors invited William Peter Blatty, author of the novel The Exorcist and a producer of the film, to respond to America’s critics.
America has published thousands of book reviews over 110 years...and some of them were more spot-on than others...
From 1939: It was a busy year for America’s film reviewer, who wrote as many as four reviews a week.
Our reviewers were not enthusiastic about two award-winning plays.