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Rivalry with God. Many a devout reader may find this note jarringly impious and pessimistic. Kazantzakis is neither. Like Zorba, Odysseus exults in life, and even during his lowest moments he is seldom without gusto. There are times when he thinks he is better than God, times when he thinks that man ought to help God rather than the other way around. He never accepts defeat...
...lack of foxes, Stagg decided that he had to deny himself, to give up something that he cherished. The something was coffee. He has never tasted it since. It was at this time, too-and Stagg remembers the date: May 23, 1877 -that this son of a devout Presbyterian family formally joined the church and decided to be a minister. "I became a Christian, and that made all the difference to me." From that moment he resolved to face life on his own resources, physical and financial as well as spiritual...
Again, as a onetime Lutheran Sunday-school teacher, Almond is genuinely devout. He gets real pleasure out of troweling around with roses, peonies and irises, because "among my flowers I can always feel the presence of deity." He would be horrified if accused of un-Christian prejudice. Yet in fact he springs from the same land and loins as his blood brother, Joseph...
Family: Born March 19, 1902, member of Lebanon's foremost family and heir to the noble title of emir held by his illustrious forebears who ruled Lebanon under the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. A devout Maronite Roman Catholic, as tradition requires in Lebanese Presidents, he married Rose Noiret of Nice, a French officer's daughter. They have no children...
...miles to Johannesburg, where he got a job in a gold mine. While studying at night, he somehow managed to scrape together enough money to get to the U.S., where he lived for twelve years. He worked his way through college, earned an M.D., and then, being a devout member of the Scottish kirk, went on to the University of Edinburgh. By 1952 Hastings Banda, Ph.B., B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., M.D., L.R.C.S., had a prosperous practice of 4,000 patients, mostly white, just outside London...