Word: commonwealth
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...Massachusetts department of public health decided a year ago to turn the commonwealth into a proving ground for an all-out attack on an inherited metabolic disorder, phenylketonuria or PKU, which causes severe mental retardation. (At least 5,000 of the 5.5 million mentally retarded in the U.S. are PKU victims.) Because of a defective gene inherited from both parents, a PKU baby cannot make use of phenylalanine, which is found in most protein foods, and the poison that accumulates in his system as a result permanently damages the brain. But if PKU is detected early enough, a special diet...
Absent are Sophocles, Cervantes, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal-all of them beloved by educated men. The few foreign works include De Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Bryce's American Commonwealth. The committee tried to "avoid inflaming rivalry" by omitting all fiction by living American authors; had they not died recently, the library would not have Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway. But the American classics, old and new, are there: Emerson, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Henry Adams, Henry James, Mark Twain, O.Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Howells, Fitzgerald-and, should presidential browsers care, Louisa...
Bishops & Butterflies. Along with Commonwealth and Crown, the Church of England thus seems to have become a relic of history, unsure of itself and its future. Says Yorkshire Novelist John (Room at the Top) Braine: "The church needs to make up its mind. Its trouble stems from the fact that nobody seems to know exactly what it stands for." The vacillations of modern-minded Anglican theologians and moralists are a prime target of satire-as witness Punch's recent capsule description of a fictional "Bishop of Bulwark": "Advanced churchman. Believes the word 'not' to be an interpolation...
...waiting upon voluntary action since 1876. He has found what other Americans have discovered: voluntary action has to be sparked by something stronger than prayers, patience and lamentations. If the 13 colonies had waited for voluntary action by England, this land today would be a part of the British Commonwealth...
...impasse continued, Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys took over as arbitrator. Sandys' "absolute dedication and zeal," said Lee, "equaled that of any dedicated Communist I've ever had the misfortune to meet." Goading, guiding, persuading, cajoling, Sandys kept the negotiators up to the small hours of the morning for four consecutive nights. "On every occasion, we passed the time when Cinderella crumbled," said Lee. "On two occasions, we greeted the dawn...