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More significantly, the strength in sales is starting to feed back into the industrial pipeline. Industrial production recently jumped a full percentage point to a record Federal Reserve Board Index of 120.4. Unfilled orders, which had been dropping steadily for a year, rose almost $2 billion. Steel mills are operating at their highest levels in three years. Construction of new housing...
...Jerome was sharply criticized by St. Augustine of Hippo for introducing new phrasings into his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate. A critical edition of the New Testament's Greek text by the Renaissance Humanist Erasmus was put on Rome's Index of Forbidden Books. With ecclesiastical approval, French police destroyed the scholarly writings of Father Richard Simon, the 17th century's best Biblical critic...
...successor, Pius X (1903-14). church officials took arms against the heresy of modernism-which taught that Catholic dogma should be revised in the light of progress made by science and philosophy -and Bible scholars proved to be handy targets. Some found their writings placed on the Index; the top Catholic scholar of his day, Dominican Father Marie Joseph Lagrange, was dismissed from his teaching posts and for a time forbidden to pursue his critical investigations...
...Angeles headquarters of the Diners' Club is a dreadful place to work. A boiler factory of computers goes thunk-thunk-think and lights up like the Scoreboard at a hockey match. And in a little room by itself squats the Master Card File, bristling with millions of index cards mounted on wheels...
...that follows is at once a chilling morality tale and a corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s. The book was written in 1871, but Queiroz had his troubles getting it published. After it finally appeared in 1874, it was inevitably put on the Index. But by the time Queiroz, a patrician career diplomat as well as author, died in 1900, he was recognized not only as Portugal's first realistic novelist but his country's greatest writer of prose. Widely praised and known in Europe for half a century, Amaro...