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...drawn to the "blood consciousness," and he felt that urban industrialized life cut man off from innocence, vitality and a piety before nature. On a brittle, sophisticated level, Lowry was weary of it all. On a more profound level, he felt the kind of metaphysical nausea that Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins expressed in the lines...
...Claudius Henry, R.B. (for "Repairer of the Breach") stirred an estimated 20,000 bearded cultists into a back-to-Africa frenzy. No one paid much attention, even when Henry's ''Ras Tafarians"* pranced about holding aloft an empty platter they swore would hold Premier Norman Manley's head if he blocked their way. In April, when raiding police found a cache of firearms and cement-packed conch shells (obviously intended as missiles) in a Ras Tafarian church, Jamaican authorities decided that the Rev. Claudius Henry was no joke. He was jailed on a charge of treason...
When news of the killing reached Kingston, Premier Manley mobilized the island's forces. A force of 1,000 men-Jamaican cops, West India Regiment troops and British soldiers of the Hampshires-was sent into action with aircraft, police dogs mortar and rocket crews. Manley pleaded with Jamaican hill-dwellers who knew the fugitives' whereabouts to cooperate in tracking them down, but for fear of Ras Tafarian reprisal, the answer was silence...
...Died. Manley Ottmer Hudson, 73, Harvard's longtime (1923-54) Bemis Professor of International Law, and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1936 to 1945, who in 1944 set forth principles of world law that were later watered down and incorporated in the United Nations charter; after a long illness; in Cambridge, Mass...
...Grace, meeting us in community with a neighbor, also meets us in the actuality of world as nature. As Augustine wrote, "Thou hadst not sought me hadst thou not already known me." And Pathos and Passion illustrates man's condition and Christ's sacrifice, as in Gerald Manley Hopkins' lines...