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...vital key to Lewis Strauss's character is a perfectionism that still seems to nag him at an age when he might have become more mellowed. It shows in the studied elegance of his tailoring, in a precision of speech that comes natural to him from long habit but seems a bit affected to unfriendly ears, and above all in a fierce reluctance to admit his mistakes, no matter how human and understandable they may have been. Some of his perfectionism traces back to a sense of being an outsider. As a Jew, he has sometimes felt the wounding...
That the forces striving to make a great big fool of American man have struck a winning streak is the contention of Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University professor who would like very much to nag at the U.S. conscience if he knew where to look for it. It is not at the U.S. as such that Barzun fires his bullets; it is at the modern world at large-"egalitarian democracy, mass education and journalism, the cult of art and philanthropy, and the manners coincident with these...
...happened to point downward, the parents would brace themselves for a weakling child who would bring them woe. The thunder god Raijin, with his terrifying drums, his great horns and long tusks, was said to have an insatiable appetite for young navels, and mothers had constantly to nag their youngsters to keep themselves well covered up. But for all the national preoccupation with it, the navel in Japan never quite achieved the status of a cult. Then along came an imaginative and dedicated retired secretary named Koji Murata...
Oxala & Ogun. The upsurge of spiritism in Roman Catholic (95%) Brazil is a phenomenon of the past decade, but its roots go deep. Slaves brought their gods from Africa, and many of them changed in their new country: among the Nagôs, Yemanjá was a river goddess who became a sea goddess on the journey across the water; Calunga, the Bantu sea god, became the god of death during the slave ship trip to Brazil. The spirit deities also merged with Catholic theology: Oxala is both the Lord of Creation and Christ, Yemanjá is also Our Lady...
Registering a variety of unregal emotions, members of Britain's royal family-the Duke of Gloucester, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal-lined the rails at Epsom Downs like the noble nag lovers in My Fair Lady's Act I Ascot Gavotte, watched...