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Ever since he was young, Carlson has shown a colorful blend of salesmanship and independence. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1937, he took an $85-a-month job as a soap salesman, but the entrepreneurial spirit moved him in 1938 to ask his landlord for a deferral of a month's rent. With this $55 he started the Gold Bond Stamp Co. He quit his job and began selling the stamps to neighborhood grocers until 1952, then advanced to supermarkets. The seven-to eight-month "float" between the time that he sold the stamps...
...Blend--The Paradise...
...economic life. It was given added thrust by the 1968 CELAM in Medellin, Colombia, when the bishops overwhelmingly denounced the "institutionalized violence" of various Latin American governments. Since then, many supporters of the comunidades have enthusiastically adopted the language and goals of the "theology of liberation," a peculiar blend of Marxian economic analysis and Gospel imperatives, best articulated by Peruvian Priest Gustavo Gutierrez in the early 1970s. Observes Volta Redonda Bishop Waldyr Calheiros de Novais: "The comunidades are the theology of liberation put into practice...
...lived it, as a man among wonders. Whether he is able to become one with them or not is immaterial to the working of the book, though it is not immaterial to the working of the man. Through his descriptions, observations and perception, Matthiessen is able to blend history and culture, religion and nature ceaselessly and perfectly. Nothing is out of place, nothing is missing...
...last night, he showed that Harvard was playing a discordant tune. University brass are promising athletic gains with one hand and unyielding academic standards with the other. It can't be both ways; the two must blend. Promising athletic success without the conviction to make it happen just increases frustration...