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Sorrows & Joys. The art of William Congdon explores both the sorrows and joys of Christian revelation. Like nearly all religious artists in history, he has been moved by the drama of the Cross. In most of Congdon's ten powerful Crucifixions, the figure of Christ is a stricken sweep of white against a mottled background of browns, greys and blacks. When he turns to the exultant scenes of the New Testament-Christ's Ascension into Heaven, the Nativity-Congdon's palette changes; the triumph of God is painted in springlike shades of blue, green, yellow and gold...
Since interference by dissidents or bungling by untrained or panic-stricken individuals could cripple a program's effectiveness, civil defense demands virtually universal support, the conference pointed out. Individual liberty might therefore be sacrificed to regimentation of practice drills, and private interests subordinated to the demands of public agencies, thus threatening basic values of a democratic society...
...competition wasn't stiff enough to begin with, captain Roger Wiegand, Hampy Howell, and Paul Sullivan, last year's top three men, were stricken with mono. There went Barnaby's hopes of cracking Yale's top three. Wiegand, even when he returned, seemed to run out of gas half-way through, and he dropped to number five. Then Howell quit, and Sullivan...
...enters into a gripping world of often unbearably real people. Yet while Lewis--I'm not sure purposely--redefines anthropology as dramatic novel, at the same time he continues in perhaps the most important ideological mainstream of anthropological thought: giving a voice, and dignity, to the backward and poverty-stricken peoples of the non-white world. An incomplete summary of the history of the discipline will serve to place Lewis' work in perspective...
...story concerns Cassandra Edwards' neurotic, domineering attachment for her twin sister Judith. Judy leaves the family ranch in Southern California to study music in the East, returns a year later with a fiance in tow. Cass, studying for a Ph.D. at Berkeley, is panic-stricken. She rushes home to break up the engagement, intends to regain possession of her less brilliant but saner sister's soul, and go off with her, far away, to live happily ever after. When other methods fail, Cass attempts suicide. But Judith and her young man, already secretly married, save her life...