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...Ecumenical Mobilization. Here, in the 1,081-capacity main auditorium, the Council's leaders and delegates-plus a team of five official observers sent by the Vatican-watched what Visser 't Hooft called the "ecumenical mobilization" click along like clockwork. With a simple show of hands at its first day's meeting, the Assembly voted to merge with the International Missionary Council...
Best Reading The Complete Ronald Firbank. The collected fiction, all clockwork nightingales and silver cobwebs, of an ineffable British fantast whose stories have delighted a small set of admirers for some 40 years...
...Complete Ronald Firbank. The collected fiction-all clockwork nightingales and silver cobwebs-of an ineffable British fantast whose stories have delighted a small set of admirers for some 40 years...
...disciples. Among his current admirers are Edmund Wilson ("His books are extremely intellectual and composed with the closest attention: dense textures of in direction that always disguise point"), Sir Osbert Sitwell, who compares his style to "silver cobwebs," and Poet John Betjeman, to whom Firbank is "a jewelled and clockwork nightingale...
...market for silver cobwebs and clockwork nightingales has never been large. Those who never would and never will buy Firbank at any price include those who can't stand the affectations of others ("even my lungs are affected," Firbank admitted); those who like a story with a beginning, middle and end; those who find vicious or blasphemous a sketch of a homosexual cardinal; and, finally, those who ask that a novel should be about the sort of people they know or would like to know...