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...when did the cultural elements (art forms, techniques, tools, customs) move across the Pacific? Dr. Ekholm does not know, but he suspects that the early high civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley, characterized by agriculture, pottery-making and pyramid-building, set up a cultural tremor that lapped most of the world. Traders, explorers, fugitives and raiders carried the techniques with them, just as their modern equivalents carry the catching customs of modern industrialism. Probably faint cultural ripples, relayed slowly from people to people, and from island to island for thousands of years, finally crossed the ocean...
Thus in a recent issue of BBC's The Listener, testy, old (64) Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis* rings a knell for his fellow English painters. One reason for the bell's toll, says Lewis, is high taxes which sop up the spare cash of collectors who were once well-to-do. Other reasons for the artist's sad state: his expenses have more than doubled in recent years; dealers demand 337% commission on everything they sell...
...Raphoe, and the Bishops of London, Oxford, and Bath & Wells. At St. John's Solemn Eucharist of Thanks giving last week there were 19 other Epis copal and Anglican bishops as well, plus some 700 lesser clergy and laymen. They heard a sermon from London's high-church Bishop J. W. C. Wand, and then the assembled churchmen recited, from the Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for the Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where...
...great deal more than a mere formality; the 90,000 Roman Catholics under Bishop O'Hara's jurisdiction have good cause to be grateful to him. In the ten years since his arrival, the diocese had built or bought 42 churches, 31 rectories, 24 colleges, high schools and grade schools, 14 convents, eight social centers, six hospitals and 25 other structures...
Belled Brides. At Jesse's next school-Winston High-his problems were different. He went there full of confidence, after getting a degree at Lincoln Memorial University. But in that back-country district, cut off by muddy roads, Jesse found it hard to keep ahead of his pupils. One of them, a pimply-faced boy named Budge Waters, had learned his textbooks by heart before school even opened. He could recite all the Pharaohs of Egypt, and "when we had disagreed on dates," recalls Jesse, "Budge was always right...