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...conceivable that Christianity is heading toward an era in which its status will be akin to that of the despised minority who proclaimed faith in the one God against the idolatry of the Roman Empire. To be sure, the Christian burden in the future will be different from that of the past: less to proclaim Jesus by word than to follow him in deed and loving service. It may prove a perilous course, but the opportunity is great: the courage and zeal of that first despised minority changed the history of the world...
Dylan, apparently reacting against his total emotional involvement in the stifling, up-to-date agonies of Blonde on Blonde, took care to place his new songs in another, strange realm. This process is akin to the Brechtian notion of "defamiliarization"--making the action subject to rational scrutiny, unclouded by emotion, because it is viewed from a distance. And since this technique requires activation by a Message, Dylan was able to infuse John Wesley Harding with a spiritual, almost religious tone...
...million worth of losses in California real estate last year and plunged Sunasco deeply into the red. The buyer: Manhattan's Commonwealth United Corp., a movie-making (The Pawnbroker) and -distributing company with realty and insurance sidelines. Price: $25.2 million, paid in Commonwealth stock. In an accompanying deal akin to a divorce settlement, Sunasco lined the coffers of money-shy Sunset with $ 1,000,000 in cash and $8.6 million worth of Sunasco stock-chiefly in exchange for Sunset's interest in five California realty ventures...
...triumph and trouble alike, 1967 stitched the national economies of the free world ever closer together. Half a dozen countries-Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Austria-developed an economic malaise akin to that of the U.S.: industrial stagnation and rising unemployment coupled with inflationary tendencies. Reason: wages and government spending rose despite economic slowdowns. Germany stopped its spiral of wages and prices, but at the cost of a severe recession that pulled down the pace of business throughout most of the Common Market. Only Italy, which underwent a deflationary purge three years ago, showed strong economic gains without...
...distinguishing life from death. It still is, in the vast majority of cases, despite some special situations in which the brain's electrical activity is a more reliable index. (So far, no surgeon has seriously considered transplanting a brain, because, beyond the forbidding technical difficulties, this would be akin to transplanting a person. Similarly, transplantation of entire gonads-ovaries or testicles-might carry with it a change in hereditary material...