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...reverence from God to God's creation without falling into current humanistic idolatries about man. He hates political man and distrusts all human groups above the size of a British infantry platoon (30 men). Most of all he hates modern man's "industrial civilization-a wilderness so arid and offensive that no organic life is possible within its limits." Sir Herbert indeed seems to have solved what George Orwell viewed as the crucial problem of the age: how to maintain the moral values of Christianity in the face of a widespread collapse of belief in the immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man of Four Lives | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...constructed elaborate canals to irrigate their fields with Colorado River water. Today, by way of a vast system of aqueducts, canals and tunnels, the Colorado quenches the megalopolitan thirst of Los Angeles and keeps a million acres of Southern California farm land green in what used to be an arid wasteland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West: Battle of the Colorado | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...swallowing Arizona's unused share of the river. In the decade or more that it will take Arizona to acquire facilities for diverting its full quota, California will have had time to complete the $1.7 billion Feather River project for bringing water from northern California to the arid south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West: Battle of the Colorado | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...boys have been retired. And Tommy Kuchel, 52, a lawyer by training, looms on California's Republican landscape like a lone tree on an arid plain. His talent for winning elections has made him the No. 1 Republican of the nation's most populous state. Nine times he has run for public office-assemblyman, state senator, state controller, U.S. Senator-and he has yet to lose a race. Last year, when Pat Brown trounced Nixon and Democrats won nearly every statewide contest in California, Kuchel retained his Senate seat by a landslide margin of 728,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Like a Lone Tree | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...ought to be able to explain why. Unfortunately, most favorable critics slaver with adjectives, like the Brattle brochure, which tells us that Le Amiche has "great visual elegance", that it is "social criticism of a Marxist order ... constructed from a mosaic of incidents trivial and tragic ... I'univers antonionien--arid, alienated, isolated...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Le Amiche | 5/14/1963 | See Source »

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