Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week dropped a stick of ecclesiastical high explosive. No Roman Catholic priest, decreed the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, may henceforth be a member of Rotary or attend Rotary meetings. Furthermore, laymen, while not forbidden Rotary membership, were exhorted to bear in mind Article 684 of canon law. Excerpt: "The faithful . . . must guard against associations which are secret, condemned, seditious, suspect, or which try to escape legitimate church vigilance...
...matter of expulsion, a member of the CRIMSON then charged that Dean Small and Publicity Director Joan Projansky '49 had given untrue reports to the newspapers. He read this excerpt from yesterday's New York Times: "A Radcliffe spokesman . . . added that Miss Labenow had not been threatened with expusion...
Howard Leondar's "Mrs. Benson" is described as a "section of a novel." Perhaps, in the context of the entire work, this "section" has meaning; as an excerpt it does not. Mrs. Benson and the other inhabitants of Whitefield are bloodless, unfathomable creatures. Leondar's dialogue fails to give reality to his characters, and is seldom incisive in itself; occasionally a line like this appears: "What is three nights when we think of eternity? A mere ... how shall I put it ... drop in the bucket...
...Brief excerpt: "The river looked miles and miles across. The moon was so bright I could a counted the drift-logs that went a-slipping along, black and still, hundreds of yards out from shore. Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late ... It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather...
British Methodists last week issued a new hymnal written especially for town & city children. Excerpt...