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MARSHALL: "There was no doubt [in my mind] that the leadership of this group were Marxist Communists and so stated in my presence and insisted, in my presence, that they were. And when I visited Yenan . . . over the proscenium arch [of the meeting hall] was a large picture of Lenin and a large picture of Stalin...
...Cairo, an arch topped with a pink neon heart and the initials F and N stood waiting for the Queen to pass through. Eighteen minutes after leaving her home, Narriman swept into the palace with four trainbearers guarding the corners of her trailing gown and faced her husband...
Lavish Cafeteria. Against a "nearer background," Van Dusen follows the subsequent course of education in the U.S. Originally, he points out, "the church was the parent and sponsor of education. And religion was the keystone of the educational arch." But as the nation and its knowledge expanded, so did education. Courses and colleges multiplied, and education more and more became afflicted with the curse of specialization ("so stunting to large-mindedness, so fatal to comprehension of the whole truth, that is, the real truth"). And with specialization came secularization...
...longer is religion the keystone of the educational arch, but rather one stone among many . . . Our educational system has lost what had been its principle of coherence and its instrument of cohesion . . . The contemporary university curriculum reminds one of nothing so much as a lavish cafeteria, where unnumbered tasty intellectual delicacies are strung along a moving belt for individual selection without benefit of dietary advice or caloric balance...
...because the churches say so ... but because of the nature of Reality-because if there be a God at all, He must be the ultimate and controlling Reality through which all else derives its being; and the truth concerning Him . . . must be the keystone of the ever-incomplete arch of human knowledge...