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Help! Help! Reissued now in a volume that includes all of James's subsequent musings on religion, The Varieties reads like a steady stream of confessions. "I am almost appalled at the amount of emotionality in it," James admits in his concluding chapter. In copious detail, James records the soul-searchings of religious figures like Luther and St. Theresa and Bunyan, and of not so obviously religious ones like Tolstoy and Walt Whitman and Carlyle. No type of religious experience, however humble or bizarre, is excluded; James treats them all with tender indulgence. The majestic agonies of Augustine...
...banging tantrum-are universally respected. In the Congo, where 5,000 Irish troops have served-and 26 died -with the U.N. peacekeeping mission, their probity and discipline command the admiration of Africans and Belgians alike. The experience has added a new term of abuse to the Irishman's copious vocabulary of invective: "You bloody Baluba!"* The U.N. Irish have taught many a native to dance a jig. Says a captain from Cork: "Only the Irish and other heathens can appreciate our dahling pipes...
...classical author, writing by hand or dictating and correcting his manuscripts like a Plato or Plutarch, but a busy missionary bishop employing the amanuenses that he could pick up in the cities where he wrote his Epistles. Some were first-class, using classical Greek, balancing every sentence with the copious use of kais. Others were third-rate and knew only the koine kais, which have as much meaning as our colloquial ands. So kais are the most unreliable "figures" to pour into a computer...
...then, TIME LISTINGS calls attention to daily programs that are too copious to be listed in the ordinary manner but too interesting to be steadily ignored. Such a program is Discovery '63, a children's show on ABC, 4:30-4:55 p.m. weekdays, which ranges skillfully and educationally through a host of subjects and themes. In the coming week, for example, Discovery '63 covers unusual zoo animals, the U.S.'s Gemini space project, micro-projection of tiny objects and organisms, a trip through Washington, B.C., with Interior Secretary Udall, and a visit to the Smithsonian...
...holdings in stocks and railroads to become one of America's richest early millionaires. But Amy's favorite forebear is Great-Great-Grandmother Vreedenburg, who staved off bands of Tory marauders singlehanded during the Revolutionary War, having plunged the vast sums of gold she had into her copious bosom...