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...John Bunyan, whose great work is as famed as Richard Hooker's is obscure. The zealous tinker, who won his youthful struggle against the sins of swearing, Sunday afternoon games and dancing, spent twelve years in the filth and squalor of Bedford jail for refusing to stop his "unlicensed preaching." But it was probably during a second, briefer imprisonment, in 1675, that he "fell suddenly into an allegory" and produced his well-known work, Pilgrim's Progress...
...Mother Kirk. Lewis has provided a lively and dramatic account of his spiritual safari "from popular realism to Philosophical Idealism; from Idealism to Pantheism; from Pantheism to Theism and from Theism to Christianity." In his first-and not initially successful-fantasy, The Pilgrim's Regress, he used Bunyan's device of a naive wayfarer beset by symbolic men and monsters...
...occasion Berlioz, a Paul Bunyan of music, hired a military band of 200, added 80 strings and a chorus of 200.* But his stirring symphony could barely be heard in the square. Wrote he: "The final blow came when the troops of the National Guard began to march away to the accompaniment of fifty drums, which continued to play during the entire performance of the Apotheosis...
...California's businessmen, it often seemed as if Henry J. Kaiser might be the New Deal's own private Paul Bunyan. Back in 1942 when the Defense Plant Corporation turned him down emphatically, the RFC loaned Kaiser $123,305,000 to build his Fontana steel mill. And he was permitted to use his shipbuilding profits (most of which would have gone to the U.S. in taxes anyway) to help pay the RFC loan. In this way he paid off $17 million...
...even Paul Bunyan himself could not do without Johnny Inkslinger, the master figurer who kept a piece of rubber as big as a barrel on the end of his nose. With three shakes of his head, Johnny Inkslinger could wipe a page clean of figures. Last week Henry Kaiser tried the same vast trick...