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...Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York. "It is less than honest to maintain that a Lent of 40 days is the final word for our age," he said in an Ash Wednesday sermon. "The Lenten diet is now possible only in exclusively religious establishments. The lengthy services with their glorious lessons have become unrealistic for men and women catching commuters' trains. The quiet pace of a 17th century Lent is impossible for people living in 20th century New York. I would gladly see Lent shortened to two weeks, Passion Week and Holy Week-so that people could take...
...Glorious Spoilt Children. This third novel by Sylvia Ashton-Warner, the greatly gifted New Zealand teacher and writer, displays all the qualities of style, feeling and subject matter that made her earlier books (Spinster, Incense to Idols, and the autobiographical Teacher) unforgettable. Except that this time she has pushed these qualities to an unbearable extreme, to create what is finally a fascinating and disturbing book, but a failure...
...wife's ghost), the central figure of Bell Call is Tarl, who is obsessed by her belief in total freedom for herself and her four children. Author Ashton-Warner has written urgently before this about the necessity of freedom in the education of young minds. "How glorious," she wrote in Teacher, "are the dirty spoilt children, never held up with fear!" But Tarl carries the idea beyond conviction to monomaniacal compulsion. "Her voice is soft with faith. Tomorrow we'll be with nature where there's no one at all In Charge. Freedom...
...adviser, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Last summer Lyndon Johnson persuaded him to give up that job and go to Saigon as ambassador. "He could have stayed on another two years as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs," says a Pentagon official, "and retired at the end of a glorious career. Instead, he went out to his last battle without much hope of winning...
...just can't seem to cope in courtship or in the court. As a suitor, he wavers between the comely Lutheran schoolteacher, who, he fears, after their first kiss, "lay awake all night awaiting labor pains," or a Mexican cousin he "would have ravished, in Fielding's glorious words," only to be prevented by her "timely compliance." His confusion leads him to doubt his capacity to love at all. But his wrestlings with his fateful judgment on the innocent man who murdered the hangman lead him to self-discovery and belated decisiveness. He emerges no longer just...