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...successor, Antonius as Suriani, who currently heads the church as Pope Shenouda lII. Before becoming a monk, Pope Shenouda was once a lay teacher in the Coptic Sunday school movement, another church development that inspired renewed interest in monasticism. Even now Pope Shenouda retires each week to a mud-stuccoed hut in the des ert for a day or more of meditation and prayer...
...more offended--hit me in the wing and I fell a heaped corpse upon the earth. The sense, if that can be said to have sense which has so little sound, was to discredit the respectability of a house in Fitzroy Square. And there you see me in the mud. Shall I argue that a mind that knows not Gibbon knows not mortality? or shall I affirm that bad English and respectability are twin sisters, dear to the telegram and odious to the artist...
...people here had enough money to pay a five dollar cover charge (two drinks included,) fifty cents for a mandatory coat check, $1.75 for additional drinks and eighty-five cents for a pack of cigarettes--cab fares are no problem. Within minutes, everyone is packed in mud-splattered yellow vehicles and wending homewards...
...would have thought that by 1976 the Harvard Crimson could have risen above its petty egotism long enough to relax and enjoy itself. But alas, once again, this college daily felt the necessity to sling mud at one of Harvard's most relaxed and enjoyable of traditions, the annual Hasty Pudding Theatrical. The Crimson, typifying the worst kind of elitism, inverse snobbery, dealt an unfair blow to what it felt was the "establishment" at Harvard. In so doing, your "reviewers" lost complete sight of the ideals of the Pudding show, especially since its good-hearted laughter...
With the world going to pot like it is, with even the semblance of civilized values being dragged through the mud by a lot of plebian types, Donleavy has decided that it's time for an aristocratic comeuppance. To disinfect the noxious influence of democracy and such repellant notions as equality, invariably supported by the wrong-side-of-the-tracks populace, he prescribes large doses of snobbery, social climbing and downright opportunism. Though you yourself may be an uncultured slob, you need only follow these rules to eliminate any obstacle blocking your successful rise in society...