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...material things is sinful. "Waste not, want not," saith the preacher, and the phrase still echoes in the minds of older Americans not too far removed from the time when wax drippings were conserved to recast into new candles, or when boys made pocket money by straightening out bent nails...
...Strange that the church, bent on freeing men, gets entangled constantly in ideas that enslave the intellect. At least Bishop Pike is searching for the historical (and theological) truth of the Incarnation, cutting through man-made accretions that are unnecessary for the Christian to believe and that are great stumbling blocks to the honest, intelligent, truth-seeking minds of the younger generation. (THE REV.) ERNEST W. COCKRELL Newton, Mass...
...Turrets to Mobiles. It took Rickey a long time to realize that he could use movement itself, as another artist might use colors, to create art. As a boy, he was gifted with a strong mechanical bent, perhaps inherited from his grandfather, who was a clockmaker, and his father, a mechanical engineer who was sent to Scotland from South Bend, Ind., to manage the Singer sewing machine factory in Clydebank. Rickey also showed an early facility for drawing, and while at Balliol College, Oxford, he used to cross the street to sketch at the Ruskin School of Drawing...
...years moving from job to job, finding only in poetry "the momentary stay of confusion." He tormented Elinor White, his shy high school sweetheart, with accusations of disloyalty because she wanted to finish college. Eventually she married him, but by that time, as he liked to say, he had "bent her to his will." He put in two years at Harvard, paid for by his grandfather, who then bought him a farm in Derry, N.H., and set him up in business as a poultry farmer. When Grandfather Frost died in 1901, he left Robert and his family the greater part...
...muse is by no means wholly Washington-pent or satire-bent. In "Grandmother's Mind," for example, she acutely renders childhood memories...