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Hicks House, one of 21 pre-Revolutionary houses still standing in Cambridge, has had an unsettled existence, marked by 15 different layers of wallpaper. After Hicks' widow sold the white house on the corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets, it had four other owners before the University bought it in...
Iowa-born Nila Cram Cook, "Blue Serpent Goddess" of the early '30s and onetime ascetic disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi who gave up Hinduism for the high life of New Delhi, later moved on to Greece, Turkey and Iran, where she founded a national opera and ballet company...
"Being a Christian means more than being a philanthropist or a humanitarian," said the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, and a generation of New Yorkers learned to know what he meant. For most Episcopalians and for many people of other faiths during a quarter of a century, the high-domed...
In effect, the election called for a vote of confidence in Norway's four-year-old Socialist experiment, directed by lean, ascetic Commerce Minister Erik Brofoss, a Norse version of Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps.
The Waters of Siloe ("waters of Siloe* that flow in silence" - Isaiah 8 : 6) is Thomas Merton's history of the Trappists since the founding of their order in the 12th Century. For an authorized account, the book has moments of uncommon candor. According to Merton, the history of...