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...secularism of the modern college. Unfortunately, like a competent lawyer with a speech defect, Walsh gives poor expression to a persuasive case. Even the ideas of Pascal sound pretty shallow in the childish lisp which the author conceives as "the language of the student." Analyzing Existence as "a three layer cake," the book abounds in silly metaphors, terming Christ "the penicillin of Salvation" and the Incarnation "God's rescue operation." His attempts at jazzy writing are equally dismal, whether describing a "Warm Fire" home (one in which "the smallest children pray as naturally as they reach for the peanut butter...
...operating in the kitchen of a ranch. Its teacher: Mrs. Joseph Pojar. Its pupils: five little Pojars. Near Broadwater, one 82-year-old teacher has to live in the school, cook her meals on a hot plate, sleep on a cot pitched beside her desk. Near Kimball, Teacher Helen Layer is in the same fix: she has one room, one stove, one pupil...
...have what everyone has who loses his hair over a long term period--Sibbores, or dry scalp." It didn't sound very imposing, but he went on building his case. "It's all caused by congestion underneath the follicle layer--he pointed to his overgrown follicle wood. Our treatments will clean out that congestion and revitalize your hair." He walked over to a fluoroscope device on one wall and pressed a button. A translucent projection of amass of blood vessels and a cross section of a solitary, but evidently from his description, healthy hair lit up one wall. Another switch...
...decided to give the Nelson gallery the cracked mural. When Roth saw the mysterious trace of blue again, he got permission to try a delicate experiment. He cut a tiny square out of the 800-year-old painting, looked underneath and jumped up with excitement: this time the second layer showed brilliant red. For six months. Roth carefully cut and loosened square after square of the top layer, lifted them out with kitchen spatulas, then carefully scraped and vacuumed off a thin layer of rice husks and mud to expose a second mural underneath the first...
...panel), Roth had uncovered a magnificent loth century Tang painting of Kuan-yin, the Goddess of Mercy, done in brilliant vermilion, orange, green and blue. Some 800 years ago, temple priests in North China had evidently tired of the goddess on their wall, ordered her plastered over with a layer of mud and rice husks, then commissioned artists to paint another scene on top. Experts could give no estimate of its value beyond saying that it was a priceless example of 10th century Chinese wall painting and one of the few available for study by Western scholars. Said Professor Yukio...