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Fledgling Literary Critic William Barrett wondered whether his brethren had not been too quick to assume that the U.S. would eventually grow up and produce a culture of its own. Barrett recalled what a French monk in Carthage had told him when he looked in vain for relics of Carthaginian art: "They had none. They were not artists. They were business people . . . the Americans of antiquity...
Called glossators by historians, the cowled brethren made extensive scribblings in ancient manuscripts. But their extensive "glossae" are negligible compared to the annual output today in public and college libraries...
...received Manduzio's first letter applying for entry into the Jewish community, he thought someone was joking. Several letters from Manduzio were left unanswered. Then the Chief Rabbi took notice. The letters-which invariably bore the date according to the Jewish calendar, began with the traditional words "beloved brethren" and ended with "shalom" written in clear Hebrew letters-told how Manduzio had made converts, first a few individuals, then whole families: a total of 80 people. Most of Donato,s fellow cobblers in San Nicandro had joined him in the Jewish faith...
...show. The audience is set for an hour and a half of rare entertainment, when the story collapses with a whimper into the worst kind of homey, ineptly-handled drama. One of the brothers, a self-styled ladies' man, marries, and brings his wife to live with his brethren, all of whom fly the mail. Inevitably, one of them (the kid) is killed, and another (strong and silent) is crippled, all with the background of Anne Baxter's rather mystifying marital problems...
...brethren at the meeting called for a "supranational government, with powers adequate to the responsibility of maintaining the peace." They asked: "Is this realistic?" and answered by saying: "We believe that nothing less is realistic." The scientists did not go any further in examining the political realism of their world government proposal than Einstein's statement at the meeting that two-thirds of the people on the earth might be killed in an atomic war. That estimate (which is not scientifically checkable) seemed to be argument enough...