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...American monasticism's active involvement with the secular world spiritually wise? Because of the obvious benefits to the church as a whole, most abbots agree that it is; but they are aware of the need to keep St. Benedict's ora et labora (pray and work) in balance. "The great question in contemporary monasticism," says St. Anselm's Abbot Boultwood. "is precisely the seeking of this point of balance that unifies the contemplative and the active in monastic life. In reinforcing the element of contemplation . . . American monasticism may have a long way to travel...
...slowed his pace. He receives a steady flow of visitors at his dining-room table, experiments with sound in his control room^ with color in his photography room, with new components for cameras and rec ords in his basement workshop. He keeps a mechanic busy in a Long Island labora tory translating his ideas into working models...
...were fired too. Last week National Fabricated Products Inc., a Chicago electronics manufacturer, announced that it has had more than 500 inquiries about the silicon batteries which it has just started making commercially under license from Bell Lab's parent company. Western Electric. Inquiries have come from industrial labora tories all over the world, including India...
Physiologists Emmelin & Feldberg, who describe the nettle as "one of nature's meanest masterpieces" [TIME, Dec. 29], omit to mention one curious characteristic of this labora-torial vegetable: it only stings if touched lightly. Remember...
James tried to quote his own school motto, came out with "Omnia labora vinces," looked puzzled as students roared.* Because she was traveling on an Italian passport with her producer-husband Monty Banks (born Mario Bianchi), technically an enemy alien, blowzy British Cine-comedienne Gracie Fields, C. B. E., was halted by Canadian immigration authorities, given a two-hour grilling before being granted a two-month-stay permit, allowed to continue to California...