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Though Aurelius Augustinus had won a bit of renown, he would surely be unknown to history were it not for the celebrated September day in A.D. 386 when he seemed to hear a child's singsong voice chanting "Tolle lege, tolle lege" (Take up and read, take up and read). Snatching the Bible, which he had once disdained, he read the first words his eyes fell upon: St. Paul's admonition in Romans 13 to abandon wanton living and "put on the Lord Jesus Christ." Instantly, he later wrote, "a light of certainty pierced my heart and all the shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Second Founder of the Faith | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...lege students who make the annual spring-break pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale from turning the event into the usual brawling bacchanal, authorities this year are trying to fence them in and dry them out. One new feature is a half- mile-long stretch of 4 1/2-ft.-high concrete and chain-link wall, which separates the beach crowds from heavily trafficked Route A1A. Another is a so-called open-container law, which separates seasonal hell raisers from their booze by banning drinking in the beach area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Fenced in and Dried Out | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...council representatives, who ran on the platform that transfer students should be housed on campus, met last week with Marlyn M. Lewis '70, assistant dean of the Col- lege, to discuss options for improving the situation of transfer students...

Author: By Lavea Brachman, | Title: Transfer Students Urge Housing Policy Change | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...books portray, they nonetheless inspire elation, the thrill of watching craftsmen work with words. Roth and Elkin are both superb monologists, comic sprinters, which is one reason why excerpts from their longer works still seem satisfyingly self-contained. Roth describes himself as a child with "one foot in col lege, the other in the Catskills," and the Borscht Belt routine is what his first-person narrators constantly imitate, no matter how much they want to sound like Chekhov or Henry James. Elkin's characters are prone to bursts of speechmaking, and their creator is also fond of the short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Serious Comic Writers | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...drive-in restaurant, was elected to the student senate with the help of younger students who posted signs reading VOTE FOR SUGAR DAN. He and his wife Loretta completed high school equivalency courses at the college and now are among about 40 people who have graduated into the col lege's regular curriculum. "They don't want to be patronized," says Bruce Bauer. "They really do their homework and some of our kids are hard put to keep up with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning for the Aged | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

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