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...Moors, assures the Queen that the earth is indeed round like a ball. The King, however, turns down Columbus on the grounds that 1) the earth is flat, and 2) Columbus is a Jew. Actually, Columbus was not Jewish, but for some odd reason Fast does not bother to enlighten the King or the reader...
...then the snarling exterior? For one thing, it's good tactics. In the protection business, the grizzly rumor serves better than modest fact. If the white Southerner thinks the Deacons are more like the Gestapo than Pinkerton's Security Service, why enlighten...
...Game. Yet so petulant have many Washington newsmen become that David Lawrence, no ardent Johnson admirer himself, has taken the trouble to point out that the press has no God-given right to "cross-examine the Chief Executive," and that "it is not the obligation of the President to enlighten the press promptly on every subject of importance." Like all Presidents before him, Johnson makes his own press rules and he is not likely to change them because of criticism. Despite the complaints that Johnson favors select reporters, it remains a fact that almost any reputable journalist...
Stained glass windows are the Holy Scriptures because they shut out wind and rain; and since their brilliance lets the splendor of the True Light pass into the church, they enlighten those inside...
...those imposed on Gothic craftsmanship. For Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Loire constructed 22,000 foot-square glass blocks. No two are alike; all are completely abstract. The canons of modern architecture can make a well-lit garage as well as a bright cathedral, but building to enlighten man's soul requires a special illumination. Says Glassmaker Loire: "A stained glass window should be something unreal-something between heaven and earth-which, in fact, it literally...