Volume 43, Number 12 · July 11, 1996
The Shadow Saint
By Murray Kempton
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
by Christopher Hitchens
Verso, 98 pp., $12.95
Eric Partridge has informed us that 'the missionary position' is an expression of South Sea islander coinage. If Christopher Hitchens did not share the widespread misapprehension of blasphemous intent in his grand remonstrance against Mother Teresa, he could scarcely have chosen to present it under a rubric so resounding with echoes of pagan disdain for piety's disabling effect upon investigative curiosity.
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