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...Rufus Wayne Youngblood was not quite as young as Reader Picha remembers, but almost. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps at the age of 17 in 1941, telling the Air Corps that he was 18. As an aerial engineer he flew combat missions in B-17s over Brest, Romilly and Saint-Na-zaire, earning a Purple Heart and an Air Medal. He was discharged as a second lieutenant in 1945 at the-finally admitted...
...professor's feelings on freedom of conscience also leave the reader concerned. "The judgment that one can not be a heretic with good conscience has been accepted by the church...Heresy is not an error in judgment or a difference in expression, but a demonic possession, splitting the moral self and producing a bad conscience. On this basis the church waged its war against the heretics of all periods." Does this give the church a right to pass judgment on a "bad conscience"? Tillich gives no clear answer. He does say, how ever, that the problems of individual conscience...
Burgess leads the reader skillfully through the cycle. His antihero, a nonentity named Foxe, halfheartedly shovels history at fifth formers in the first phase. During Interphase, he is a political prisoner and then a refugee, frantic to eat and not be eaten (cannibalism is part of the chaotic interregnum). In the third phase, Foxe enlists in an army whose sole function, it turns out, is to relieve the population pressure by annihilating another army-and itself...
Naive, Even Stupid. He also disarms criticism-up to a point-by asking the reader's question for him: Why should a man who voted Communist in 1932 now argue so passionately against "state control"? He was "naive enough," he answers, to take seriously Lenin's promise that the state would "wither away." He admits: "It may seem naive, and even stupid, on the part of one who had worked for years on a journal which specialized in public affairs [the New Republic] that he should have paid so little attention to recent changes in the income...
...funny. The themes of several of the chapters are delightfully imaginative--such as the automation of foreign policy to ensure its continuity or the crusade to eliminate team sports as Communistic and un-American. But the charm of the theme is often lost in its lengthy execution, and the reader finds himself reaching after a soap bubble which has been crushed by a ton of bricks...