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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the similes are familiar, e.g., The Kingdom of the Father is like a woman who has taken a little leaven and has hidden it in dough and has made large loaves of it. Whoever has ears let him hear. But others have a surprising new emphasis, like the saying which immediately follows the above and seems to indicate that one can lose one's chance to enter the Kingdom through ignorance: The Kingdom of the Father is like a woman who was carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on a distant road...
Villains of the piece are mostly peasant oldsters who launch a religious revival when young Hero Rodka finds a buried icon of St. Nicholas near an abandoned church. From a larger village nearby comes Father Dmitry to read the Bible ("All listened attentively with heavy breathing, but in every face it was plain to read that they understood not one word"). Rodka is finally hooked by religion when he hears awesome reverberations in the church tower just before midnight each night and he staggers home convinced that God exists, muttering: "No more future, no more happiness, all finished." (The noises...
Rodka's rescuer is his faithfully unbelieving schoolmarm, Paraskovia Petrovna, who hales Father Dmitry before District Agitprop Director Kuchin and argues with him en route on behalf of edifying atheism. Director Kuchin is fed up with staging anti-God lectures ("Nobody comes but atheists"); he has his own sophisticated recipe for the conversion of Russia. "We must make it so that the last of the old ones believes no more in the omnipotent, but in us," he says. "And for this we mnst show what we can do. First, a piece of meat in the soup, good clothes...
Cannon, whose father works as a custodian in a Louisiana State dormitory, sold pop and peanuts at L.S.U. football games as a kid, naturally enrolled at the university desoite the 50 offers he drew as a high school All-America. A predental student (B average) with a wife and three daughters, Cannon may well be the strongest fast man, or the fastest strong man, in the world. Square and solid (6 ft. 1 in., 207 Ibs.), he puts the shot 54 ft. 4½ in. (world record: 63 ft. 4 in.), rips off the hundred in 9.4 sec. (world record...
Assigned to do a term paper on television critics, Iowa State University Coed Elisabeth Dwight recently sought help from her father, Ogden Dwight, who happens to be the TV critic for the Des Moines Register (circ. 224,337). How much influence, she asked, does the television critic possess? Replied Dwight: "Not a damned...