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Nevertheless, in his clarity of comprehension and expression and his ability to direct himself squarely to the kernel of his tale, Sourian shows his very considerable talent. "Miri" is a first novel which excites hopes of much finer things to come with the broadening of the author's experience...
...search for the magic kernel still missing from his campaign, Stevenson picked and shucked issues like a corn husker. His big try was the H-bomb, but as he ranged across the land from New York to Illinois to California he went from H-bomb to foreign policy, to economics, the farm problem, unemployment and corruption. Sometimes he put them all together to spell NIXON. His language was harsh. "I don't mind telling you," he snapped at highly successful Democratic rallies in the New York suburbs, "I am good...
...head. "The essential religious experience is not a matter of belief in a set of propositions but is a movement of the whole self to the daily challenge of actual human relations." True to the essence of Hinduism, he sees many ways to God. "The truth which is the kernel of every religion is one and the same; doctrines, however, differ considerably since they are the applications of the truth to the human situation . . . All are necessarily inadequate and if taken too literally lead to error. Every formula, every attempt to enclose reality within words and concepts, which is true...
Codes of Chivalry. The new U.S. code of conduct for prisoners of war (see box) is the kernel of a finding by the Advisory Committee on what happened to U.S. soldiers captured in Korea. For several weeks the committee consulted former P.W.s and their records, sifted through military histories and reports of the P.W.s in Korea seeking answers to the problems from service chiefs, educators, clergymen, doctors and psychiatrists, officials of labor and veterans' organizations. To set the precedents for the new code, the committee researched back to primitive man, who automatically slaughtered all of his prisoners...
Western European NATO of seven nations, which would nestle within NATO proper like a kernel in a nut, would permit German rearmament and still be acceptable to France. It would have the backing of the French nationalists, said Mendès, because it imposed no restrictions on French sovereignty, of the Socialists because it would bring in Britain as a counterweight to Germany, of some of the "Good Europeans" because it retained at least a whiff of European Union...