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...most part, the monks observe "Holy Silence," except at certain times or in emergencies, when conversation is kept at a minimum. During dinner and supper, one of the brethren reads aloud while the others eat. For deeper meditation, the Society sets aside a two-week retreat in the summer, and one week in the winter. Fortunately, the subway traffic next door does not disturb the "greater silence" which lasts from supper until 9 o'clock in the morning...
...What is there to stop the Arabs the world over to collect as much as they please for their unfortunate brethren? God knows that a few only of the Arab kings and sheiks could easily outmatch the donations of the Jewish communities in this country or abroad...
...while two hundred of its accepted applicants--men who fulfilled the requirement of being enrolled in an accredited graduate school--slipped one by one off its lists and had to be replaced. Presumably, the men who replaced the unlucky two hundred had no more qualifications than their less fortunate brethren. But they had "lenient" local boards...
Along with the normal hazards of sunburn, goose-pimples, stone bruises, poison ivy and chiggers, Canada's nudists share with their brethren in other parts of the world a carking problem: how to get their pictures in the newspaper, thus winning a little helpful publicity for the cult. If they show too much, the postal authorities get stuffy; if too little, the serious point about Nacktkultur may be lost...
Whatever the explanation, Kentuckian Vinson's aside on morals drew no dissent from his brethren on the supreme bench. And no wonder. The doctrine he pronounced stems straight from the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, philosophical father of the present Supreme Court. In one way or another, it has been voiced by the court many times, notably by Justice Felix Frankfurter, longtime (1914-39) Harvard Law School professor, author of Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court (1939), discoverer, under the New Deal, of scores of bright young men (the Happy Hot Dogs) for top Government positions...