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...Time of Trouble. Many Protestant theologians are critical of the formal rigidity of the natural law theory; neither they nor the Jews find the stock Biblical proof-text from St. Paul convincing.* Others, notably Karl Barth, reject the Thomist theory of analogy on which the natural law stands; in fallen man, they hold, sin has shattered God's image, and since the Garden of Eden he has had no direct knowledge of God's reason or his will without revelation. Many Protestants distrust the whole Scholastic tradition, which they feel keeps man from direct contact with...
...some nations depended on individual inspiration, others on committees and contents. Nigeria held a competition that drew 2,870 entries. The winner: a 22-year-old Nigerian student in Britain who had never designed anything before. The involved banner of the Central African Republic was designed by its Premier Barthélémy Boganda, who was later killed in an air crash (TIME, April 13, 1959). The problems faced by the 18 new nations, and by nations yet unborn, were summed up by an official of the Malagasy Republic. "It was very hard to find a combination that...
...Weed Factor, by John Barth. This comedy of picaresque errors and escapades, set in colonial Maryland, is as deadly serious as it is wildly funny. Its sobering thesis: since man cannot penetrate the multiple masks of reality, he can never really know himself...
...WEED FACTOR (806 pp.)-John Barth-Doubleday...
Lost Garden. Bawdy in manner and ironic in detail, The Sot-Weed Factor i that rare literary creation-a genuinely serious comedy. Author Barth, 30, assistant professor of English at Penn State, is clearly fascinated with the multiple facets of reality and just as clearly convinced that the real is unknowable. "No man is what or whom I take him for!" cries Ebenezer wildly, and indeed the Poet Virgin cannot even penetrate the "vasty reaches" of himself. Unlike Candide, he cannot cultivate his garden, because he is too lost in philosophic speculation to understand that the garden is there...