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Monstrous Jot...
...dramatic form some of the mental wrestling he must have gone through himself. We have a militant author of atheistic books; a devout Catholic housekeeper; a Catholic priest who says, "It's a difficult thing, though, practicing a faith, day in, day out, when you don't believe one jot of it"; a woman who believes in God "on Sundays if the music's good"; a man who exclaims, "I don't want God. I don't love God, but He's there--it's no good pretending; He's in my lungs like air"--clearly not a simple bunch...
...effect, then ... is the equating of the Church with a stock character out of Central Casting to be trotted out at will and bedecked as a sort of ecclesiastical Liberace for crassly commercial purposes. In so doing, not one jot is added to the stature of the Church or its mission in the world, a chore, incidentally, reserved not to Hollywood but to the Holy Ghost. Let us devoutly hope that the cassock and habit may enjoy eternal rest from moviedom's commercialism, and pray that they may never decide to shoot St. Augustine's Confessions with George...
...University of Michigan's Lithuanian-born Reuben Kahn, 69, chief of the University hospital's serology laboratory. A shy, brilliant man who can rarely get through a night without waking to jot down some idea that has popped into his mind, Kahn developed a test for syphilis that largely replaced the cumbersome Wassermann, in 1951 published a theory that could be a major step toward the early detection of disease. His "universal blood reaction" theory: a healthy person's system produces antibodies in a definite, ascertainable pattern. In a sick person antibodies form faster and in different...
...needed a vacation. During the Middle East and Hungarian crises he had developed a nervous habit of awakening at 4 or 4:30 a.m. to jot down on a scratch pad the ideas that were flickering through his mind. When he first arrived in Augusta the wind was chilly, the skies were grey, and his golf score-usually a good thermometer of his physical and mental tone -was infuriatingly high. He suddenly realized that he was very tired, and planned a careful schedule to replenish his strength. By last week the clouds had cleared, the temperature rose into...