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...expensive picture book is probably a fixed Christmas institution for the foreseeable future. As publishers recognize, its very size and expensiveness make it sell. Both price tag and poundage are an unarguably solid demonstration of the giver's regard. The presumed esthetic content is an implied compliment to the recipient's cultivation. Yet it can appear to be absorbed just by leafing through it; and duty done, the thing lends its own cachet as it lies there on the coffee table. Of course, for those with the courage to seek them out and match them with the taste...
...Washington, D.C., the estate of Builder Morris Cafritz, who died last month at 77, was tidily appraised at $24 million, of which the feds will get $3,000,000, his widow, sometime Party Giver Gwen, $6,000,000, his three sons and charity the rest...
...banned, the Americans beamed, and nearly everyone boozed. Apparently incensed by some rubbishy but relatively innocuous nudes, Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Venice, declared the international art show off limits to all priests and nuns. President Antonio Segni thereupon absented himself as official host and prize giver. But this scarcely dimmed the carnival spirits of the cocktail set. Greek-born Iris Clert won the unofficial party-thrower prize by hiring a yacht, tying it up in the Grand Canal, and calling it the Biennale Flottante; inevitably, one of her guests was soon flottante...
...live only by the inevitable stories. We are particularly concerned with the people and events that do not force themselves to the top of the news but must be sought out by the enterprising journalist-just as many an honorary doctor must be sought out by the enterprising giver of kudos...
...good is "very good?" What happened to original sin? The difficulties don't stop there. To anyone who questions Tillich's belief in Logos, the giver of absolute moral laws, he writes, "there is self-deception in every denial of the natural moral law (Logos). For those who deny it must admit that a divinely revealed moral law can not contradict the divinely created human nature." This apparently means that Tillich's ontological notion of natural moral law has been confirmed by God himself...