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...counter-reformation cannot be hatched in the closing lines of magazine articles. It is more important to bring the news that Russia is not irresistible; that the regime cannot be changed by persuasion or inward force; that it depends, however, for its life on the capitalist West and that to render it harmless we need only freeze the cold war solid, and isolate Russia; and that we must use the years of waiting, during which, armed but inact've, we watch our enemy weaken, to promote this counter-reformation of the West...
...lack of affiliations; 6. An unusual amount of seriocomic joking about this or that official investigating committee 'getting you'; 7. A shying away, both physically and intellectually from any association with the words, 'liberal,' 'peace,' 'freedom,' and from other classmates of a liberal stripe; 8. A sharp turning inward to local college problems, to the exclusion of broader current questions...
...SHORT, EASY AND COMPREHENSIVE METHOD OF PRAYER. Translated from the German. And published for a farther Promotion, Knowledge and Benefit of Inward Prayer, By a Lover of Internal Devotion...
...Inward prayer is the nourishment of the soul," he wrote. "For one may pray without forming or uttering any words, without consideration or speculation of the mind . . . yea, without knowing the least thing in a manner relative to the outward senses. And this prayer is the Prayer of the Heart, the unutterable prayer, the most perfect of which is the fruit of Love, and the less perfect a sensibility of our indigencies...
...literature-and the greatest stumbling block known to the stage. The play's scope, declared the late great Critic A. C. Bradley, is too vast for any stage to encompass; while Charles Lamb contended that the title role cannot be acted, that Lear's greatness is inward and "intellectual," and that when put behind the footlights he becomes merely "an old man tottering about . . . with a walking stick." There are other problems. The sharpest drama in the play-Lear's division of his kingdom-comes at the very outset, making the play itself all aftermath. There...