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Finally, Blake declared that "we must be against any church union that would in any way threaten the ecumenical movement" or diminish the obligation to cooperate with the many Christian bodies-ranging from Roman Catholicism to Pentecostal sects-that would remain outside the merger Blake proposed. The only truly Christian union, he concluded, would be one undertaken in humility, mutual forbearance, and a genuinely selfless love...
Neither Lewis nor anyone else at the Digest really expects the Wallaces to let their concern for the magazine or their control of the product diminish markedly. But the baby does continue to grow, and the parents are getting older. Help was needed at the top, and Digest staffers are unanimous in their relief that the foster parent who was chosen comes not from the business side but from the editorial hierarchy...
...attempt to use a primitive plastic involved one of the most intricate organs in the body. It was an 1853 attempt to replace the cornea of the eye, and it failed. Then the technique of human corneal transplants was developed, and the urgency of finding a plastic seemed to diminish. But human transplants do not stay clear in all cases. An imaginative ophthalmic surgeon, Dr. William Stone Jr., working first in Boston, then in Los Angeles, has devised a corrective corneal implant of plastic...
...Jello. Some will go on at great length about the state of their health, or last summer's trip to Europe. Their dauntlessness in the presence of the Mother Superior often springs from seniority. Even the necessity of facing them over rows of cold limp broccoli does not diminish the pleasure of verbal contact with these fine motherly women...
...each group is prideful of its own heroes and pleasured by the insulated coherence of its own world. Come the next nasty pan this happy commerce between our spheres will diminish, and we shall retreat again for a time, as "writers" and "actors," into the apartheid of mutual ridicule...