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Army of Liberation (with arms and advisers lent by the Caribbean Legion) boot out Calderon Guardia and his motley following of extreme rightists and Communists. Tacho never forgot the Legion's real aim: destruction of such Caribbean dictators as Honduras' Carias, Dominican Republic's Trujillo, and Tacho himself...
...alarming were William Vogt, who warned the world in Road to Survival that its growing population was rapidly using up the earth's substance, and Fairfield Osborn who, in Our Plundered Planet, lectured man for destroying the fertility of the land. Poet Thomas Merton, now a Trappist monk, lent poetic excitement to his autobiographical account of a worldly young pagan's conversion to Roman Catholicism, in Seven Storey Mountain. And, in a category all its own, there was Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which was a continuing bestseller in spite of its statistical...
Miss Bacon's implication seems to be that Frances and the other Merediths have cheated Spinelli out of the one gesture that might have lent dignity to his life; and that when the innocence of people like the Merediths is compounded with irresponsibility it becomes the equivalent of guilt...
Students at New York City's Roman Catholic Fordham University last fortnight had the opportunity to study a little-known painting of the Assumption, Botticini's Vision of St. Thomas*, lent to the University by Princess
...engaging qualities; his humorless autobiography fails to disclose them. Yet, visiting Europe, he called on great men who not only made him welcome but asked him to come again. Benjamin Franklin, then in London, took him to the court of George III, introduced him to his literary friends, and lent him money. Rush dined with Artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Novelist Oliver Goldsmith ("He spoke with the Irish accent"), and crotchety Literary Czar Samuel Johnson, who reports Dr. Rush was rude to Goldsmith. Rush even got himself invited as a dinner guest of famed Political Prisoner John Wilkes in the King...