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...whose inhabitants are all the lonely, half-crippled, emotional misfits who exist on the pallid fringes of the everyday world. It is presided over by a weird, bodiless, placeless woman, Thora Pattern, from whose papers the story purports to be taken. Roving back and forth in time, to and fro in her subjects' minds, Thora Pattern records the edge-of-the-alphabet lives of three people seen on a boat trip from New Zealand and in London after...
Icicles fitted the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause...
...thought Biff, "I guess it's not a coffee-house." He watched Jane disappear and then turned away dejectedly. "I've miscalculated," he thought. He looked around him and saw students with happy faces walking to and fro. "Strange," he thought, becoming philosophical, "life is going on as usual, but right under our noses there is something horrible." It was four o'clock, and the afternoon sun was casting long shadows; the Yard looked oddly serene. Two students passed Biff and broke his reverie by speaking loudly...
...greatest gathering of Christians since the 16th century, when the Council of Trent worked for 18 years to counter the Protestant Reformation, ends this week in New Delhi. It is the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Behind all the well-organized confusion - the hustling to and fro between auditorium and committee room, the 15,000 sheet daily blizzard of mimeographed paper, the lost traveler's checks, the distracting snake charmers and the non stop talking across language barriers - a vast regrouping of Christendom seems to be taking shape. One veteran churchman. President Henry Pitney Van Dusen...
...Because it idealizes childhood, defends rebelliousness, suggests that bourgeolse society is "phony," and employs a few words, Catcher has become a of ideological contention. journals hailed it as a master while the National Review att it for sounding like Rousse some parents' "decency" goutempted to have it banned fro schools...