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...call society editors to read them her guest list (the girls are glad to call her), but she is not above inquiring coyly after a dinner: "How many ambassadors did I have last night? Six or eight? I never can remember." She often summons her guests from afar, likes to remark casually: "So-and-so is flying in from San Francisco for my dinner tomorrow...
Grandmother Cloudless. Sir Peter's father was a North Irishman who fought the Maoris in the '70s and finally married a chief's daughter named Ngarongo-ki-tua (Tidings-that-Reach-Afar). She died when Peter was a child and he was brought up by his grandmother, Kapua-kore (Cloudless), who lived to be 102 years old and was, he recalls, "more tattooed than any woman I have ever seen or heard of among my people...
...bless and keep the one afar...
...miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word of His teachings brought to people who heard them from afar...
...pestilence and famine, caused by overpopulation, would slap down presumptuous man. This did not happen. The world's population had doubled since Malthus' time, from one billion to two, but new lands were cultivated and old lands made more productive. Better transportation brought surplus food from afar to feed the hungry industrial cities. There were local famines, as there had always been, but the world never ran out of food. The gloomy Malthus, who had underestimated both nature's resources and man's resourcefulness, had been wrong...