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Salvation in a Shed. There was only one instinct, one Air Force rule of survival, to follow: go downstream. And down Pilot Steeves struggled day after day-crawling, hobbling and sliding through snow-filled gorges, sleeping in hollow logs and under sheltering rocks. In 18 days he went 25 miles, finally got to Simpson Meadow (elevation: 6,000 ft.). There, crazed from hunger, he stumbled on a park ranger's storage shed. Breaking in, he found more matches, fishhooks, a map of the area and a tiny store of provisions-a can of beans, hash, tomatoes. He wrapped himself...
...Pollard suggests the difficulty. It has been so long since we have had a Christian culture that 1957 can hardly understand the Christian revelation. When these men talk about life after death, resurrection, judgment, and God, their words sound hollow. There is no reference to a common experience except despair. There are no shared meanings, because such things can only grow in a community in which such concepts are imminent facts...
...become an urgent compulsion, not merely a contemporary fad. Perhaps the efforts of these few will spur the rest to think, to act, to be themselves. Perhaps somewhere in this vacant land, the value of character and personality will again be forced to the front, to battle with the hollow-eyed crowd of Others. And the battle will be good...
...leaders' demands for the release of a long list of jailed Social Democrats, ordered Ignotus, among others, set free. Paul and Florence met for the first time. She, at 33, was somewhat recovered from her prison experience; he, at 56, accustomed to long sessions "at the cinema," was hollow-cheeked and scraggy-necked, with bowed shoulders, but with a jutting chin and a strong, level gaze. A couple of weeks later they were married...
...president emeritus, well-heeled elder statesman and occasional philosopher-he has been known to compare Happy Knoll to the Baths of Caracalla. For all its outward bonhomie, the Horlick-Magill correspondence chronicles a perpetual crisis -settling foundations, unsettled bar bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks faction). With no trouble at all the sociology-minded will be able to find in Happy Knoll a microcosm of American society. The women are aggrievedly aggressive; the young are unruly...