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...write about his favorite saint. Two saints, Francis of Assisi and the Spanish mystic John of the Cross, were selected twice. Poet Noyes has written about St. John the Evangelist as the most "intuitive" of the Apostles. George Lamb, a young British Catholic, discusses St. Simeon Stylites, the 5th century hermit who spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola and his missionary follower...
...Augustine, the 5th century Bishop of Hippo, was Christianity's first great philosopher. Writes Anglican Rebecca West: "His works are the foundation of modern Western thought . . . He took as his subject matter a certain complex of ideas which intrude into every developed religion and are present in Christianity also; the idea that matter, and especially matter related to sex, is evil; that man, wearing a body made of matter, living in a material world, and delighting in the manifestations of sex, is tainted with evil, and must cleanse himself before God; and that this atonement must take the form...
...private art collection in Britain. Estimated value: more than ?750,000. In recent years, Chatsworth has been open to the public. Families of sightseers have swarmed over the 4,000 expertly landscaped acres and strolled through corridors and state rooms full of works of art, dating back to the 5th century B.C. But last week the British version of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue won a court fight which threatened to break up Chatsworth forever...
...present I'm serving with the 5th Regimental Combat Team, but I'm also a Harvard man (Class of '53) on a leave of absence. For that reason I am particularly annoyed that my college should be so badly portrayed to the world. Of course the public reads of Harvard's academic and scholarly achievement, but the gullible average reader is more apt to remember the little pranks and foolish escapades of several students. It is not only this face-slapping record. It is an accumulation of all the trivial stunts of students through the years that can hurt...
...evening of Tuesday, Feb. 5th, an incident occurred in the Harvard Yard, knowledge of which has been confined to those students in the corner of the Yard in which it took place, but which we feel should have been brought to the attention of the entire student body. We are writing this letter that others beside those who scually witnessed the incident may know of this disgrace to the University...