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Since a priest is also a man, his human appetites are apt to get in the way of his vocation. Graham Greene used this simple fact of religious life with searing effect in The Power and the Glory. In his second novel, Author William Michelfelder, onetime reporter on the New York World-Telegram and Sun, cannot stand comparison with his master, but he tries to outdo him in compassion. Greene's whisky-drinking, fornicating priest in revolution-torn Mexico could only try to make amends by persisting in God's work at the risk of his life. Father...
...Council of the Valleys get around to rescinding its 1914 declaration of war on Germany. Andorra's few state documents are kept in a giant oak closet at the government house, the Casa de la Vail. Since every Andorran is deemed honest, the government's money is apt to be lying about anywhere...
...peer whose career had progressed only from "the negligible to the mediocre." The Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul," and the independent-conservative Spectator, far from disagreeing, called the comparison "apt" and added: "The Earl of Home at his best has shown signs of equine intelligence." The object of all this objurgation is one of unflappable Mac's most steadfast supporters and closest confidants. Called "Gentle Alec" by his friends, tall, tweedy Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 57, belongs to that diminishing number of landed...
...total of 21 times earnings. Multiply this by two for furth-burners, and we now have a score of 42 times earnings for the new company." Concluded Dreyfus dryly: "In today's market, studying securities can be fatal. While you're studying them, they're apt to double, and by the time you find you wouldn't have bought them in the first place they will probably have tripled...
...Bring Up Children in Spite of the More Zealous Psychologists." "And More Blah-Blah." In this book Dr. Kanner said: "There is no raid shelter from the verbal bombs that rain on contemporary parents. At every turn they run up against weird words and phrases which are apt to confuse and scare them no end: Oedipus complex, inferiority complex, maternal rejection, sibling rivalry, conditioned reflex, schizoid personality, repression, regression, aggression, blah-blah, blah-blah and more blah-blah." By contrast, Dr. Kanner exhorted: "Let us, contemporary mothers, together regain that common sense which is yours, which has been yours before...