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...dive-bomber pilot who helps to wound one of the Japanese carriers in that decisive victory at sea. Son Byron is in submarines. Daughter Madeline is in wartime show business, but she takes up with a young officer who just happens to be working on a Navy effort to enrich uranium. Pug's wife Rhoda, pining at home in Washington, starts her own chain reaction with an Army colonel...
...explain it as "a human and literary creation." In a favorable editorial, the Communist Party daily Népszabadság listed three reasons for Communists to gain familiarity with Christianity's handbook. One was to understand such Bible-based expressions as "Solomonic verdict" and "scapegoat," another to "enrich the dialogue with believers." But the most important, said Népszabadság, was that knowing the Bible "can in fact strengthen official ideology." The editorial did not explain how, but its author's own scriptural wanderings presumably had not included Psalm 14, which begins: "The fool hath...
...MOST delightful impressions Harvard's pre-freshmen get from their admissions booklets is that they are about to join Pirsig's "real" university--that they are about to start to enrich the collective heritage of reason. It seems that, when they arrive in September, they will be able to take part in the free search for whatever truth may be found at Harvard...
...fail to see how a computer society will enrich the lives of its people. Increased leisure time is already a problem in the U.S. Who would actively, physically participate in a sport or hobby when a computer could do it all for you? Might not life become unbearably boring...
...religion ever started with a full-blown iconography. The earliest Christian work was crude and secretive, a code of graffiti?crosses and fish scratched on walls. To enrich that, to give its visual discourse a dignity to match imperial power, Christian art needed pagan symbolism. Once its early frenzies over idolatry had been resolved, the new religion picked over the bones of antiquity, preserving many of its forms in doctrinal art but switching their meaning...