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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Foreign Service in the State Department--information booklet, sample examination questions, application form for test to be given Dec. 10; filing deadline...
...Only in America) Golden's whimsical plan for "vertical integration," the Danville Library was open for standees only. Every chair and table was gone. Next week all library cards will be canceled. To get a new card, the applicant must pay $2.50 and fill out a four-page form, listing everything from the type of books he plans to borrow to his college degrees, plus two character references and two credit references...
...grew into a full-fledged community, with its own church and chapter house and a program for giving food and shelter to pilgrims. During the Jubilee Year of 1575, according to contemporary accounts, the Oratory opened its doors to 144,913 visitors and served 365,132 meals. The musical form, oratorio, derives its name from Philip's community, where it was partly developed by Florentine Composer Giovanni Animuccia. Palestrina's successor as choir master at St. Peter...
Russian Doppelgänger. At one point in the story, an official jeers at an idealist: "You reformers! I suppose you'd like to see a kindly socialism, a free form of slavery . . .?" That is the vision that addles the heads of the two principal characters in the subplot-the student Seryozha and his girl Katya. Seryozha dreams of "a new world Communist and radiant" in which "top wages would be paid to cleaning women. Cabinet ministers would be kept on short rations to make sure of their disinterested motives. Money, torture and thievery would be abolished." Alas...
Nihilism, that familiar Doppelädnger of the Russian spirit, keeps cropping up; under the icecap of the Soviet regime, the frozen spirit still lives. In that sense, this sharp little sermon in novel form represents good news out of Russia. Unlike Doctor Zhivago, which buried the revolutionary dead with funerary narrative, this book crackles with questions addressed to the living. It puts the Grand Interrogators under total Interrogation, and makes clear that the most feared heretics against the Communist system are those who take seriously its original visionary aim of universal happiness...