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...growing sideline with Gornitzka is advising other ministers on how to deal with rich constituents. He is convinced that many pastors stand in awe of the well-to-do. But if a camel can go through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man can enter the kingdom of God, it would appear that plain preachers can often give the rich a little extra spiritual help...
Among other things, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg called for camels, donkeys, onstage animal butchery and sex orgies with naked virgins to complement his twelve-tone melodies in 1932's Moses and Aaron. Schoenberg himself once said that the opera is "undoable," but now a plucky band of Britons led by Royal Shakespeare Theater Director Peter Hall, 34, has decided to stage it at London's Covent Garden. First off, Sheena the camel smashed one set in rehearsal, put her foot through another, had to be dropped from the cast. That left the donkeys, etc. Then the censors...
...bubbled over with ideas. When cruise ships arrived in port, Baldwin got the citizens to wear colorful folk costumes and put on exhibitions of the regional sword dances. He persuaded the subgovernor, Ozer Turk, to start rebuilding the massive stone caravansary in the center of town. Instead of housing camel caravans, it will be a hotel and shopping center...
...delicious if gathered young and cooked promptly. Lichen, formed by the union of fungi and algae, eats into rock, prepares it to become new soil. The molds that make Camembert are fungi; so are the yeasts that leaven bread and ferment grapes, grains, berries, cacti, honey and camel's milk into alcohol. Yeasts keep industry in ferment as well, assist in the manufacture of paint remover, antifreeze, synthetic rubber, adhesives, cosmetics and perfume. Yeast-feeding produces better pelts in mink, more honey from bees, faster growth in trout...
...number of dark-skinned Asians, Africans and West Indians began flocking to Britain in the early 1950s, the British at first consoled themselves with the thought that these tropical people had only come to earn a nest egg, and would return to buy a trawler in Barbados or a camel in Karachi...