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When Bennett arrived, all federal prisoners were being tossed combustibly together, murderers and rapists with income tax evaders and car thieves, and lock-stepped to meals that were eaten from a tin plate under a guard's glare. Bennett's monument is "individualized" treatment that separates prisoners by degrees of dangerousness and redeemability. The vast majority are given only as much restraint as they require. Today, more than 40% of federal prisoners are in prisons virtually without walls-working outside at everything from roadbuilding to reforestation...
...Etonian Nick is a somewhat overage second lieutenant assigned to backwater posts in Ireland and Wales, where he passes his time studying anti-gas warfare and reading Thackeray's Henry Esmond. The shooting war, which largely flows past him, interests Powell less than its effects on the worm-eaten aristocrats and upper-middle-class English men and women who inhabit his fictional world. Not a great deal happens. Nick's brother-in-law, Robert Tolland, is killed while serving in France with the Field Security Service. "Would he have made a lot of money in his export house...
...that scare me to death-nuclear war, automobile accidents, lung cancer, to mention but three-but I have only a limited time to devote to fright. I therefore have a scale of priorities on which the 'menace from the Right' ranks 23rd-between the fear of being eaten by piranha and the fear of college presidents...
...echoes the experiences of more Southerners, than the story of seven-year-old Roth Edmonds in Go Down, Moses. In all Roth's young life, his constant companion has been a Negro boy named Henry, son of a nearby Negro farmer. They have played and fished together, eaten the same meals and often slept in the same bed. "Then one day the old curse of his fathers, the old haughty ancestral pride based not on any value but on an accident of geography stemmed not from courage and honor but from wrong and shame, descended to him." Roth decrees...
...only Adam had eaten a pear!" So wrote the young Swiss Priest Ulrich Zwingli in the margin of a copy of St. Augustine's City of God. It was the half-quizzical, wholly anguished cry of a man bothered by the mystery of evil and man's sinfulness. Like Luther before him and Calvin afterwards, Zwingli discovered his solution in the unadorned Word of God, and not in the papal teachings of the corrupt, corrupting, 16th century Roman Church. Zwingli thus became the architect of the Swiss Reformation. But he remains the least known of the great Protestant...