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...this context it is clear that at least one reviewer is not very happy with either the fragments of William Palmer's novel "Coyahique," or Edgar de Bresson's story "Down There Where It's Beautiful." The fragments of the novel never achieve any coherence, nor do their baffling lack of focus suggest any very obvious truth about the South American revolution which they portray. De Bresson's story, on the other hand, is not a fragment, but rather an epitome of sickness, a suitable inside for the hideous color combination of the cover. It is not that the story...
...chaste aspirations, he will be profoundly shocked to see the way his own truth and power are prostituted to ends with which he cannot become reconciled. He will then do like all pietists before him: propose simple solutions to complex problems, see all issues naively and out of context, and make absolute moral judgments where the need is for shrewd compromise...
...fledged graduate and undergraduate department of religion, manned not only by theologians but by psychologists, anthropologists, historians and philosophers. The time had come, said they, to end the "idolatry of every discipline for itself," and to try to reconcile science and religion, and relate all knowledge to "the whole context of human life . . . It is only the universities, not the churches or seminaries, which can hope to discover how we may, without destructive schizophrenia, at once pray and question, and so be fully...
...McElroy cannot even begin to solve the Pentagon's problems until he has a general staff, whatever it may be called. Their argument: only a general staff, standing above violent service loyalties and ambitions, can work out a single, integrated, sensible U.S. defense plan. And only within the context of a single, integrated, sensible defense plan can Neil McElroy start using his free hand to tackle the subsidiary problems. Among them...
Even before the Satevepost reached U.S. newsstands, Muggeridge's studiously fair discussion of royalty blew up outraged headlines (A SHOCKING ATTACK ON THE QUEEN) and out-of-context quotes in London's dailies. British ' readers responded in highly un-British fashion by bombarding Muggeridge with hostile letters that ranged from the scurrilous ("your effeminate voice") to the scatological (one letter, reported Henry Fairlie in the London weekly Spectator, had been "rubbed in either animal or human excrement...