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Like any Catholic theologian, Graham Greene thinks of sin as the normal climate of life on earth. But he translates the algebra of theology into the personal terms of stories as human as the tabloids tell-and much more convincing...
...insight and of putting themselves across In language than the next man, and in autobiography this matters. So often an autobiography is a tedious catalogue of data about mother and father, their mother and father, the furniture in the old home, the trouble with pimples in adolescence and algebra in high school. Later the routine switches to particulars about women the author has slept with...
...percentage of students studying "traditional" subjects (algebra, geometry, physics and Latin) decreased last year, as it has since...
...Washington, Tallulah Bankhead explained her education: "Daddy let me quit school at 15. He didn't see any sense to my trying to learn algebra when I wanted to go on the stage. He said if I knew Shakespeare and the Bible and how to shoot craps, I had a liberal education...
...avoid: out-of-date talk and learned impenetrability in general. It infuriates him, for instance, to see agate defined as "a variegated chalcedony, having its colors arranged in stripes." That sort of definition, says he, is like "thrusting calculus at a fellow who has only a learning of algebra...