Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in Wapakoneta, Ohio (pop. 7,500), the son of a career civil servant who is now assistant director of the state's Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction. As a youth, Neil limited his social life mainly to school and church functions; when he went out with a girl it was usually on a double date to the ice-cream parlor. He played baritone horn in the school band. He studied hard, and while his teachers do not remember Armstrong as a particularly brilliant student, he impressed them all with the thorough, meticulous way he went about his work...
Besides Release, the only agencies doing this kind of work in Britain are the small National Council for Civil Liberties and a few local church and welfare groups. In recent years, the British have not always lived up to their well-deserved reputation for fair play toward the accused criminal. They have not, for example, developed anything like the body of Supreme Court case law that-at least in theory-restricts police in the U.S. Coon and Harris, in a paperback entitled The Release Report on Drug Offenders and the Law, claim that British bobbies at times break into homes...
Burrowing parallel tunnels toward an otherwise unassailable bank are a band of crooks disguised as robed members of the Church of the Cosmic Heart and a group of Chinese-American T-men impersonating Chinese laundrymen. The crooks want the bank's liquid assets; the agents want proof that the bank's president has been stashing swag for outlaws. Who will get there first...
...Novelist Michel Tournier has done. The beautifully translated result, though, is far more than a Cartesian blueprint fleshed into creaky fiction. Like Crusoe I, but more elaborately in Tournier's version, Crusoe II shakes off despondency by creating a makeshift England, complete with fertile fields, full storehouses, a church, a fortress and an elaborate code of law and punishment with which to govern himself...
...British slave. He succeeds to the extent that Friday learns English and performs complicated chores. But the Negro-Indian half-caste will go no further; he refuses to be a black Englishman. Although he is tireless, he is not diligent. He is clever, but not rational. For him, the Church of England, punitive ditch digging and goatskin trousers are merely the mystifying apparatus of Crusoe's games. At last, Crusoe realizes that Friday's instincts may be more sensible than his own. He abandons his bookkeeping system of morality, adopts Friday's formless sun worship and lives...