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...University of Kansas Professor Raymond Wheeler has in progress a vast project for measuring the rise & fall of civilization, has caught history repeating itself in cycles of 45, 90 and 510 years. He calculates that, if the pattern continues, civilization will slide into an abyss about 1960, begin a new Golden Age about...
...from homelessness or death. Now there were few such rescuers. To the Indianapolis City Council, about to debate opening a dog shop in the center of town, Novelist Tarkington wrote a letter: ". . . Out of the myriads of creatures upon the earth only one, the dog . . . crossed the vast abyss that separates the species ... I find few things in life more touching. . . . What is man's response? . . . What of the underprivileged [dogs] who can't even hope to be $4 dogs? The answer turns the heart sick. ..." The city fathers voted to open the new shop...
...Navy catastrophe which introduced it to World War II at Pearl Harbor (see p. 75). The story was the tale of a shocking disaster. But mostly the nation took the facts with a quiet feeling of relief and wonderment: that a nation pushed so close to the abyss could a year later be fighting with increasing success all over the globe...
...problem of evil' for men none of whom escape evil. Since war is the great evil, it is the ultimate task of religion; unless religion can meet it, it is no good. It has been the power of Christianity that it has sought no escape from the abyss of evil; it is the religion not of avoidance but of overcoming...
...this threat on a popular BBC radio program, "The Brains Trust." But of late radio fans have noticed a decreasing cockiness in Brain Truster Joad's answers. One shrewd lady listener wrote him that he seemed to be walking a tightrope between the mountain of faith and the abyss of doubt, and that she prayed every night he would fall off on the mountain side. Last week Joad fell, confessed that he was once more a Christian...