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...years Mississippi Novelist William Faulkner has published 18 books. Some of them (The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Intruder in the Dust) are among the best in 20th Century U.S. fiction; others, as might be expected from a man producing at Faulkner's rate, are inferior and slapdash. In the latter group is Knight's Gambit, a collection of six stories (a couple of them written for the Satevepost) more or less conforming to detective-story formulas...
Orthodox psychoanalysis and religion, says Kristol, will never agree on truth. The issue between them is simple and clear-cut. Religion asserts "that the understanding of psychoanalysis is only a dismal, sophisticated misunderstanding, that human reason is inferior to divine reason, that the very existence of psychoanalysis is a symptom of gross spiritual distress . . . Psychoanalysis, religion might say, comes not to remove insanity, but to inaugurate...
That the quality of the food was really inferior both as regards choice of foods and as regards preparation, and that this is not merely the protest of one spoiled or squeamish patient is best attested by the constant lines to the lavatory. And certainly the standard of the Houses at Harvard is not too high to be met by a hospital...
Both clubs desperately needed a win. It served as a tremendous shot in the arm to the Harvards, even though their performance against an inferior football team was nowhere near perfection. As for Holy Cross' dentist-coach Bill Osmanski, he must keep trying to produce what Art Valpey has just achieved--a first victory...
...Russians are using one or both of these processes, which have the advantage of working well enough even when they don't work too well. In the diffusion process, for instance, the U-235 has only to be pure enough to be "fissionable." If the Russian apparatus is inferior, their U-235 is just as explosive as if it came from the great precision plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn...