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Bill? Another possibility-at least on paper-is Pennsylvania's Governor Willi,am Scranton, 45. Unlike Romney, Scranton has convinced his closest friends and most of his devout admirers that he really does not want his party's 1964 nomination. In fact, he would really like to quit politics at the end of his term...
Church bells ring on a winter Sunday in a Swedish coastal village. The devout -they number just nine-assemble in the drafty little stone building. The pastor (Gunnar Björnstrand) serves Communion as if he were an actor in a play near the end of a long run-withdrawn, saying the words without compassion. The contrast between this remoteness and the fervor on the faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman...
...hand for signing the recantations, deliberately put the hand into the flames; or Luther, gradually moving from reform to open spiritual insurrection. There are those who flee into rebellion as if it were a second country, like Lenin or Garibaldi or T. E. Lawrence, or find in it a devout clique of followers, like Freud or Sartre. And there are those who carry rebellion to insanity, like Sade and Hitler...
Private enterprise has been kind to Mafatlal and his business, which was founded by Arvind's grandfather in 1905. Mafatlal lives with his wife and three children in a swank Altamont Road mansion in Bombay's outskirts, is served by a staff of 65. A devout Hindu, he eats no meat, keeps his own herd of cows to supply his family with milk, and wears simple white cotton from his own mills. Mafatlal and other Indian industrialists of his generation are more civic-minded and less apologetic about wielding great wealth than were their fathers and grandfathers. Since...
...small hello. He was homesick. Seeing how U.S. banks helped small businesses to get on their feet, Shoman decided that what the Arabs needed was their own bank-an enterprise that no Moslem had so far undertaken because of the Koran's injunction against usury. Devout Shoman felt certain that the Prophet had not meant to forbid honest commercial banking, and in 1929, taking the considerable money he had earned in the U.S., he returned to Palestine...