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...places: "The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably . . . The peculiar malady of my times . . . was . . . vacant freedom and indeterminate progress: Vorwärts! Avanti! Onward! Full speed ahead! without asking whether directly before you was not a bottomless...
...volume, 813-page report that could be called Nineteen Seventy-Five, a presidential commission shows what can happen to a nation that neglects its natural resources. Though the results are far less terrifying than Orwell's, they are startling enough. The U.S., which has long been considered a bottomless store of natural resources, is fast running through its wealth. Unless something is done about it, the U.S. standard of living will fall, and the whole free world, now dependent on U.S. production, will be threatened...
Martyr's Red. Girolamo Savonarola was a reformer with imposing forensic powers, and the bottomless, concentrated piety of St. John of the Cross. He came to the Dominican monastery of San Marco at a time when Florence lay wrapped in the captive luxury of the Medici tyranny. The church and the papacy were sadly corrupt, suffering from the rule, successively, of two immoral Popes. Innocent VIII and Alexander...
...double bed of the Carlyle marriage with the serenity of Harley Street specialists, noting every hypochondriacal toss, turn and outburst with cool professional attention. They point out the more admirable aspects of the case-Jane's struggle to put up with her husband's cantankerous restlessness, her bottomless faith in his genius; Thomas' "absolutely unseducible" loyalty to his wife, his habit of rising to grave occasions with awe-inspiring kindliness...
...laboratories and uranium mines to finished atom bombs-are beyond the reach of the public. The men who possess the facts are forbidden on pain of death (Atomic Energy Act of 1946) to communicate them. For all the taxpayer knows, the AEC may be dropping his money down a bottomless hole...