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...Apropos of Adam Clayton Powell, alias "Daniel" [Sept. 30]. Am I mistaken, or didn't ministers use to preach the Gospel from their pulpits on Sunday morning? Apparently Mr. Powell feels that the denunciation and abasement of his House Education and Labor Committee as "racists" is more important than God's word. MARK J. HARDCASTLE King of Prussia...
...came to me and said, Tm not the religious type and I don't want a sermon, but there's this cat and he wants me to go away with him for the weekend. I feel horny. Have you anything to say?' So I quoted the Gospel according to D. H. Lawrence: 'Every parting means a meeting elsewhere. And every meeting is a new bondage.' In other words, there isn't anything that doesn't matter...
...Years of Gospel. Lekachman retells the major elements in the development of a genius: the patrician upbringing, the early triumphs at Eton and Cambridge, the cocksure rise in the British Treasury, the friendships with Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, the prolific outpouring of books, each more imaginative and important than the last. The climax, of course, was The General Theory, published in 1936, which argued heretically that economic cycles could be tamed and unemployment and inflation defeated by conscious government manipulation of national budgets, taxes and interest rates. In sum: man could control his economic fate...
...function smoothly, and that slumps or excesses would be self-correcting because the production of goods created exactly the amount of income needed to buy those goods and to invest in facilities to produce more of the same. Despite persistent unsettling booms and busts, economists accepted that notion as gospel for more than 100 years-until Keynes smashed it by explaining that, in the absence of government action, demand can fluctuate sharply since not all wages are spent and not all savings are invested...
...herself up as a fashionable couturiere, and now longs for a "total commitment"-to a person, to a cause, to anything at all; Axel, a dazzling, dispassionate mystic of the absurd who has resigned his university lectureship to work in a hospital ward for thalidomide babies and preach a gospel of gratuitous, existential love, which Annerose finds appealing but scarcely persuasive; Octavio, a muscular young industrialist who believes in exactly nothing and who finally proposes to Annerose a commitment she finds compelling. "What else does beauty need," he asks, "but the chance to be destroyed?" What, indeed? In a scene...