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...good intentions. A roving tribesman might offer some bright stone to a stranger simply to show that he meant no violence. The most important strangers to be courted with such gifts were the divine forces that brought rain or wind, hence the tradition of sacrifices left hopefully on an altar. The results of such efforts could be vexing. The Lord accepted Abel's offering of sheep but mysteriously rejected Cain's fruit of the ground, and Cain, according to Genesis 4: 5, "was very wroth...
Nice young men from good families, Chris Boyce and Daulton Lee had known each other since their days as altar boys in a decorous Los Angeles suburb. At 21, Chris, an expert falconer, got a job at TRW, the aerospace and electronics behemoth. Within a few months, after a cursory security check and at a weekly salary of $140, he was helping monitor some of the CIA's most embarrassing top secrets, including dirty tricks directed against Australia's Labor government. By this time Daulton was an important man in his own right, in his own eyes: he had established...
...Christmastime ballet was based on a version of the tale by Alexandre Dumas, "smoothed out, bland and utterly devoid of the weird, dark qualities that make it something of a masterpiece." With characteristic wit and technical wizardry, Sendak has restored those qualities. Marie, journeying from childhood to the altar, old Drosselmeier the taleteller and Nutcracker himself are no longer marzipan creations. In Ralph Manheim's vigorous new translation, mice and soldiers, clowns and children speak out as never before, and Sendak has found pictorial equivalents for their idiosyncrasies. The illustrations will be on deposit at the Rosenbach Museum...
Doctors like to imagine that the therapeutic imperative and the experimental imperative are one and the same. On the contrary. They are almost always in conflict. At the extreme are the notorious cases in which the patient is actually sacrificed on the altar of science: the Tuskegee experiment, in which a group of black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated for 40 years; the Willowbrook experiment, in which retarded children were injected with hepatitis virus; and the Brooklyn study in which elderly patients were injected with live cancer cells. Loma Linda was at the other extreme. Here, far from...
...Allegheny County sheriff, who hesitated at first to enter church premises forcibly, finally ordered Roth arrested near his altar last week. For disobeying the court order, Roth was given 90 days in prison and a $1,200 fine. While Bishop May decides whether to defrock the clergyman, Roth vows to remain in jail until he is reinstated at the church and executives agree to negotiate with DMS. Considering the hard feelings that now exist, his sentence is likely to run out before there is any compromise...