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...spiritual free from what is felt to be the contamination of the material world, which is regarded as in some way gross and unworthy. . . . But this results ... in leaving the physical to go its own way unchecked by the spirit, so that the vaunted spiritual exaltation has its counterpart in bodily immorality. In either case the unity of man's life is broken; the material world, with all man's economic activity, becomes a happy hunting ground for uncurbed acquisitiveness, and religion becomes a refined occupation for the leisure of the mystical. It is in the sacramental view...
Pillar & Post. Trade's grandsons, President William and Vice President Robert, are a modem counterpart of the original brothers. Hard-working William, a churchgoer and Shakespeare-reader, once kept his Rolls-Royce in his garage until July so that he would have to pay only half price for a license. Easygoing Robert, 57, plays gin rummy every afternoon, turned down a minister last week who promised to grow a beard if Robert would come to Sunday service. They run the business themselves with little top help from outside, gross an estimated $4,500,000 a year...
...concentrator's heavy lab schedule, the pre-med must nevertheless abstract the meat of the fundamental courses and consequently asks for a tailor-made class. But department inertia and/or the lack of facilities have prevented the realization of a special course and, despite the success of its pre-war counterpart, no revival is in the offing...
...blurred carbon of the U.S. model. The N.F.L.U. came back under one of its old leaders-dignified, Christian, 59-year-old Komakichi Matsuoka, who has been called the "William Green of Japan" and hates Communists just as much. A more radical group promptly established the N.C.I.U. as a Japanese counterpart of the C.I.O., made a smart but little-known newspaperman named Katsumi Kikunami its chairman. Kikunami (who had a Nisei nephew killed in Italy fighting with the U.S. Army), though no Red himself, accepted Communist support. From this springboard of U.S. patterns, the Japanese jumped into the blue...
Yardling backstroker Tom Woods emulated his Yale varsity counterpart, Allen Stack, in the earlier Freshman meet last Saturday evening, as he led his teammates to a 43 to 32 triumph over the Yale yearlings...