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...which man asserts his freedom against his finiteness, and complicating with a fatality of evil a destiny which man senses to be divine,.is the tissue of history. It explains why man's history, even at its highest moments, is not a success story. It yawns, like a bottomless crater, across the broad and easy avenue of optimism. It would be intolerable without faith, without hope, without love...
Alec had no histrionic forebears and no early encouragement. But "Somehow," he says, "I always knew I wanted to be an actor." Funds in the Guinness family (no kin to the stout fellas from Ireland) being tight, when Alec finished Roborough School in the bottomless '30s, he took a ?2-a-week apprenticeship in a London advertising agency. He studied acting at nights and (in the finest tradition of the theater) lived in a garret for a year, mostly on borrowed jam sandwiches and card board soles...
Robert Goelet, socialite Manhattan banker whose 50-room Newport mansion was a local showplace (and, at taxpaying time, a bottomless rathole), finally gave it away-to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, for a girls' college...
...more closely tied to the free-enterprise U.S. than to Britain in matters affecting their national security. South Africa is strategically British, politically split by Boer nationalism, and socially ridden by extreme racism. Eire takes full advantage of its independence; its chief importance in world affairs is as a bottomless reservoir of ill-will toward its once heavy-handed master...
...bottomless pit Let us militarism bury...