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...years he has been French Ambassador to Japan, always manifesting himself in strange ways and at strange moments. Now he comes as Ambassador to Washington. Eventually, some will discuss with him War debts, some will look up his odes, many will feel his charm, his strength; but few will understand his genius...
Perhaps the best way to understand is to enter the dim, vaulted portal of Notre Dame de Paris with young Paul Claudel at vespers time on Christmas...
...Paul Claudel a close friend has said: "His thoughts as he expresses them are extremely difficult to understand. ... He fashions words out of Latin and Greek roots, picks them out of all sorts of strange places, until you seem to be wafted on a bright, flying carpet woven all of butterflies...
Even liberal Protestants, to whom veneration of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is nothing short of idolatry, were shocked; Roman Catholics, firm in their faith in Mary, Queen in heaven of the hierarchy of saints, might have answered as before: "Outsiders can never understand our faith, our veneration of the Blessed Virgin...
...achieving Dean's List privileges. The new policy, in devolving greater responsibility upon the individual student and in allowing him greater personal initiative, is following the same general lines as the changes which have preceded it, the tutorial system, the general examinations, and similar innovations. It is difficult to understand why this most recent step should not achieve equally successful results...