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Designed to Want. Man is adrift on a raft in a boundless ocean, writes Fowles. "From his present dissatisfaction, he reasons that there was some catastrophic wreck in the past, before which he was happy; some golden age, some Garden of Eden. He also reasons that somewhere ahead lies a promised land. Meanwhile, he is miserably en passage." But if man were to find his Utopia, writes Fowles, he would be much more miserable. For man is made to struggle and yearn: "We are designed to want: with nothing to want, we are like windmills in a world without wind...
...scientific research, but obeyed when his superiors exiled him to long years of field work in Asia and Africa. His order also forbade him to teach or publish his nontechnical writing on evolution and theology-partly to spare him censure from the Holy Office. Nonetheless, Teilhard never lost his boundless optimism, which pulsates through the latest of his posthumous works, a collection of 22 essays called The Future of Man (Harper...
...years under five Presidents, been Senior Justice for no less than 19 years. Justices Brennan, Goldberg, Stewart and White are young enough to be his sons. But there has yet to be any serious talk of Black's retiring. He is a wiry little man of boundless energy who plays ferocious tennis almost every day, sometimes four hours at a time. His blue-green eyes sparkle with the light of a mind still aggressive in the pursuit of learning. No other Justice has less formal education; yet none is more widely read than the libertarian Alabamian who deprecates himself...
...rector of Justin Martyr school, and his life is narrated by people who have known him: students, teachers, family. For the leisurely first half of the book only his admirers comment on him, and they see him much as he sees himself: a man of rocklike integrity and boundless Christian charity. Says one ex-pupil: "His kindness was overwhelming, without ever being in the least sentimental; without even, perhaps, .being personal. He raised the great beaker of his hope to my lips like a communion cup and watched with grave countenance as I drank, and when he took it away...
...regarded as being much farther right than he seems now, although he could at times be a maverick from the conservative cause. Since then he has cultivated the image of a statesmanlike, middle of the road Minority Leader, and backed it up with some key votes which brought him boundless praise. But Dirksen's support of Goldwater merely reaffirms the central fact of his political life when seen in the perspective of 30 years in Washington...