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...Time Study: Boon or Bane...
...television. And the church will again sink into 'innocuous desuetude,' from which it hoped Billy would rescue it. Haven't the Protestant leaders of the city thought of these hazards? Or have they decided that a little publicity and organized evangelistic effort is such a great boon, that the price of presenting Christianity as a series of simple answers to complex questions is a good bargain...
...Assembly is not noted for its miracles. But the importance of a stable French government to Western Europe and the free world is worth at least the effort. If this week's election results awaken France's leaders to their responsibilities, her present crisis could yet become her greatest boon...
...night of Dec. 11, 1710, England's Nottingham galley was smashed to bits on rocky Boon Island, just six miles off the coast of Maine. What the crew of 14 sees the next morning is enough to test the fiber of any man: a ledge on which nothing grows, a slab of rock pounded by huge seas. The ship has vanished in the night, the men have nothing but the clothes they wear. There is no food, no firewood, no water. Novelist Roberts has a perfect chance to sort out the men from the weaklings. Some of them...
What the rescuers of the Nottingham's crew take off Boon Island after nearly a month is ten scarecrows who are close to sub-humanity. But Novelist Roberts is getting at something beyond a gruesome record of man's ingenuity and toughness. Look at Captain Dean, and Swede and Neal and Miles, he says. What did they have that brought them so close to nobility, when most men would have cracked? Character and more character. Just as the malingerers and whiners were bound to take it lying down because character is what they never had. Perhaps...