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WONDERS, INC., by Crawford Kilian, illustrated by John Larrecq (Parnassus; $4.25), is a whimsical story about a marvelous factory that makes lines (skylines, hairlines, sidelines), mistakes (from colossal blunders to tiny errors), time (part-time, pastime, split seconds, fleeting moments) and space (from outer to closet...
...dissociates himself from the more adulated Slavs. There is none of their relentless virtuosity-none of Wajda's beautiful but monotonously static compositions, none of the bludgeoning Polanski's Wellesian low angels and shock cuts, none of the coy mysteriousness common to Shop on Main Street and Joseph Kilian. Forman is more Western in temperament, a humanist in the Renoir-Truffaut-Olmi line of descent...
Right to Question. In summing up, Benedictine Theologian Kilian McDonnell said that Protestants have a right to question "the noisy efficiency of much of Catholic devotional literature, the ritualism of much Catholic prayer." Equally objectionable is the "raging objectivism" of Catholic theology that emphasizes Christ's real presence in the Eucharist and ignores what is of greater importance to Protestants-"the continual presence of Christ in the believer." On the other hand, Catholics can rightly argue that "there is a profound dislocation of a sacramental nature found within Protestantism." But true Christian spirituality, McDonnell argues, requires both framework...
...first man to see potential wealth in the Sahara was a brilliant but unstable French geologist named Conrad Kilian. In 1927, after three harrowing years in the central Sahara-on one expedition he was obliged to remove his own tonsils without anesthetic-Kilian returned to Paris proclaiming that the Sahara was a huge depository of oil and natural gas. Geologists scoffed. "There is no more oil in the Sahara than there are trees in the Atlantic," cracked one. In 1950, worn out by repeated bouts of mental illness and years of rebuffs from French authorities, Kilian hanged himself...
...delight in "Europe's New Churches" was revived in your fine pictorial article. We regret only the omission of the name of the prominent postwar German artist, Georg Meistermann, who designed the stained-glass window in Schweinfurt's St. Kilian's Church...