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Last October while I was in London I talked to my aunt on the telephone. A week or so earlier my grandmother had rung for Mrs. Aslett to ask when exactly she was planning to quit working full-time. Mrs. Aslett seemed to shrink even smaller, and replied, "Well, Lady Dyson...
Such breakaway groups sometimes shrink or dissolve without a sustaining structure. The Faith Community in St. Louis, which has ties to the S.F.C.C., began with 26 members five years ago, now has seven-yet those are thriving. The sisters, says Spokeswoman Nancy Brossette, found that what they had was not so much a common goal as a common enemy-lack of money, planning and knowledge about how to make it on the outside. Many new nuns share this "reentry" problem. As one former Dominican puts...
...York State, after taxpayers had defeated a transportation bond issue in November, awoke to the fattest projected nonfederal deficit in U.S. history: $750 million for the fiscal year ending in June. To shrink it, Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered payment of more than $350 million in state aid to local school districts delayed from March until July, so that it would count against the fiscal 1973 budget rather than the present one. The state this fiscal year has also closed two tuberculosis hospitals, a school for retarded children and a prison, and instituted a statewide freeze on hiring...
...book exudes freely without quite giving of itself and hints at cloudy meanings without any apparent obligation to follow through on them. The Blood Oranges, like anything wholly out of time, can never grow. Like ripe fruit and sweet erotic fiction (which it is), it can only shrink and fade when we finally flee Illyria (which we must) and retreat into the more familiar haunts of life itself...
Unhappily, modern history tells us that we live peacefully only when we share a common fear. The psychological effect of that first intergalactic greeting will be an everlasting sword of Damocles for us all. Only then will our differences shrink to petty insignificance, and the global peace that eludes us will be ours at last...