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...Acts of the Apostles settings. "Mark, why do you always make the little sign of the cross when you go through a door?" asked Jerry, and Mark replied conspiratorially: "That's one of the secret ways you can tell a Christian in a crowd." There is also a lucid "resource book" for junior-high-school students giving alphabetically arranged definitions of Christian terms, e.g., "The word apostle means one who is sent. Every patrol leader in the Boy Scouts is a kind of apostle...
...made reasonable the assumption that Russia, Britain and the U.S. could act in postwar concert. The record as now revealed undercuts this argument. Stalin, at least, kept his head above the tide of comradeship. He defined his national and party objectives, studied them carefully, defended them with lucid (if dishonest) arguments, and attained them. Some of his aims seemed quite limited when compared to the ballooning notions of world reorganization cherished in Washington; Stalin fought for one river boundary of Poland against another with the myopic pertinacity of a 17th century diplomat arguing over a second-string fortress...
...French (and their Deputies) pride themselves on their individuality, and excel in lucid definition of their differences...
...successful novel last year was Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), which will be published in the U.S. this month. In one season its talented, 18-year-old author, Francoise Sagan, became a celebrity, and her book's haunting title became part of the French language. Author Sagan's lucid young heroine leads a freewheeling existence on the Riviera with her freewheeling father, until one of his mistresses tries to marry him. The girl's intrigues split the couple and lead to the older woman's suicide. The book ends where the beautiful young heroine's maturity...
...EAGLE, THE JAGUAR, AND THE SERPENT, by Miguel Covarrubias (314 pp.; Knopf; $15), is a beautifully illustrated, splendidly produced volume on the primitive but often strangely modern-looking art of the North American Indian and the Eskimo. Obviously a labor of love, the text by Mexican Artist Covarrubias is lucid and authoritative...