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Paced by Byron ("Whizzer") White, national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy, Bobby headed for New York to face his biggest problem of the week-patching together the faction-torn New York Democratic organization...
...skeleton of his story, which earned Kazantzakis the censure of the Greek Or thodox Church, contains such orthodox dogma as Jesus' virgin birth, miracles, divinity and (in forecast) resurrection. But Kazantzakis' Christ is far more man than God-a man torn, like Kazantzakis himself, between flesh and spirit, dark and light. "Within me," he wrote, "are the dark immemorial forces of the Evil One, human and prehuman; within me too are the luminous forces, human and prehuman, of God-and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met. The anguish has been intense...
...human being in a world where beliefs are shared.1' He is troubled by the materialist itch of American life, whether he is Charley Gray, the nice poor boy who wants to be a nice rich man but still plays by the rules, or Willis Wayde, who has torn up the rules and claws his way to uneasy success-the only Marquand hero the author seems to have loathed...
Dalkowski seems pure fiction. In four years with six clubs in six minor leagues, he has struck out 665 batters, walked 726, thrown as many as six wild pitches in a row, broken one hitter's arm, torn the lobe off another's ear, and sent an unsuspecting umpire to the hospital with a stray fastball that popped him flush on the mask, knocked him 18 ft., chest pad over whisk broom. At Aberdeen, S. Dak., in 1958, Dalkowski pitched a one-hitter and lost, 9 to 8. Against Reno's Silver Sox this summer, he whiffed...
...also have forcibly transferred large numbers of Tibetan children to a Chinese materialist environment in order to prevent them from having a religious upbringing." The Dalai Lama told the commissioners that his information showed that more than 10,000 Tibetan children, some as young as age six, had been torn away from their parents, given numbers and sent to China...