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Such lapses are comparatively minor in an ambitious, magisterial and ultimately positive book. For Johnson demonstrates that Christianity, though it certainly caused enough bloodletting, did help tame the human beast, did offer hope in a landscape of despair. "Without these restraints, bereft of these encouragements," he concludes, "how much more horrific the history of these last 2,000 years must have been!" Given Johnson's grim recital of human frailty, that may seem more like faith than history. But, as he disturbingly observes, the first glimpses of a deChristianized secular future are most dismal indeed...
...coaxing and coddling the delegation, Reagan and Gerald Ford were dealing with a highly unpredictable beast. It is a shaky coalition of men and women, most of whom had bravely bolted the Democratic Party in the early 1960s, and a more recent group of "Bull Moosers," who are more aggressively seeking public office for the party or themselves...
When British Yachtsmen Alan Warren and David Hunt limped across the finish line 14th in a field of 16 Tempest-class sailboats, they looked their not-so-good ship Gift 'Orse in the hull, set the fiber-glass beast afire and sank it in Lake Ontario. The 22-ft. sailboat (worth $10,000 new) had been damaged during shipment to Montreal and had served Britannia poorly. Said disgusted Skipper Warren: "She was lame: kindness called for us to put her down." The task proved almost Olympian. Paint thinner sloshed on the decks to fuel the blaze evaporated before Crewman...
CONSPIRACY runs rampant. There is grumbling in the kitchen, muttering on the back porch, gibbering in the parlor. Back-stage phone-calls jerk marionettes out of their dangling sleep and send them prancing into places of power. Zombies lurch forward. Who is Nancy Reagan anyway? And what dark beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born...
Last Wednesday, the first day of the Beast, the rookie cadettes marched, did pull-ups (highest female score: seven; highest male score: 23) and had their tresses shortened to collar length by barbers trained at a local beauty salon. On a printed form not yet completely desexed, all plebes were asked: "What was the highest rank you attained in the Boy Scouts...