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...Composed about the middle of the 2nd century, the Gospel could not have been written by Philip the Apostle, who is recorded in John as one of the first disciples gathered by Jesus and as an onlooker at the miracle of the loaves and fishes. In stead, following a custom of the early Christian era, it was written by some unknown author who sought to give his own writings the ring of authority by purporting to speak in some measure for the Apostle. Unlike the already translated Gospel of Thomas, from the same Nag Hammadi collection, Philip contains no sayings...
...Melville Jean Herskovits, 67, founder-director of the U.S.'s first program of African studies at Northwestern University, a brilliant anthropologist (The Human Factor in Changing Africa) whose 40 years of research led him to counsel "that Africans could best form working governments based on tribal law and custom rather than on unnatural systems borrowed from outside; of a heart attack; in Evanston...
...Britain in Africa, Europe and the West Indies. "Here in Britain," says a Barclays executive, "we're a rather starchy lot. But out there we have a big, brash, happy sort of market." Barclays has learned to be as brash as the market. Departing from the hackneyed British custom of sending local advertisements to the hinterland, it has gone after African depositors with movie cartoons and commercials set to high-life music. Sample: "One of them farmers 'e go for Barclays Bank/And they keep him money well." The cartoons are leading attractions at theaters, have tripled savings accounts...
Barclays also pays careful attention to local custom. In Africa it uses mobile vans for its white customers in off-track communities, but has learned not to use them for Africans; they get suspicious when a truck drives off with their hard-earned shillings, and are apt to raise quite a fuss. For Africans, Barclays sets up offices wherever it can, even if they are only one-room huts. Barclays has learned the necessity of accepting the smallest deposit (one chief arrived with an entire tribal retinue to deposit $1.40) and of honoring some unusual checks, including one written...
Coterie to Custom. Every generation is convinced that manners are not what they once were and still should be; complaints about today's young people-who adamantly stick to their seats on buses and trains while sick old ladies lurch about on their feet-make up a good part of almost any dinner conversation. To Amy Vanderbilt, there is no fighting the inevitable and growing relaxation, nor should there be. Manners, says Amy, are largely a matter of custom: "In generations past, a small coterie of so-called society people set our manners. Most of today's fashion...