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...Augustine, the 5th century Bishop of Hippo, was Christianity's first great philosopher. Writes Anglican Rebecca West: "His works are the foundation of modern Western thought . . . He took as his subject matter a certain complex of ideas which intrude into every developed religion and are present in Christianity also; the idea that matter, and especially matter related to sex, is evil; that man, wearing a body made of matter, living in a material world, and delighting in the manifestations of sex, is tainted with evil, and must cleanse himself before God; and that this atonement must take the form...
...plot is simply incredible--something about a girl aerialist who, when spurned by her sawdust impressario for a sick hippo, falls head over heels in love with a daring young man who falls head over heels off his 60 foot trapeze and does a triple somersault into the hospital...
Knautschke, a resident of the Berlin Zoo, is a fine, broad-backed figure of a hippo, but he was lonely until his helpers discovered a mate for him: a female hippo in the Leipzig Zoo, named Crete. There was one hitch: Leipzig is in Germany's Russian zone...
Last week, both the West's chancelleries and Eastern Europe's cafes were once more abuzz with such speculation. The Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party had announced that Premier Georgi Dimitrov, 66, was "on leave," receiving medical treatment in the U.S.S.R. In his absence, hippo-jawed Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Vassil Kolarov would look after the business of running Bulgaria...
...Yale and Army pack the real wallop. The Elis finished second behind Michigan State in the IC4-A meet last Saturday. Jim Fuchs, a hippo-gazelle athlete, should win the shot and may also wind up first in the dash. George Wade won the IC4-A mile in 4:13, and sophomore George Appel took the pole vault in the same meet at 14 feet...