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THERE is an important political postscript to be written out of the summit conference at Geneva. Have the Russians been able to persuade President Eisenhower to run in 1956? I am sure that he is nearer today to decision to stand for re-election than he was before he sat down at the conference table...
...years "because of his age," he was no longer so indifferent to man's justice. A number of wealthy Cuttack admirers, trustees of the Kaliaboda math, had persuaded him to appeal the sentence. He gave in, on the ground that the "high court is a little nearer God's justice than the lower court." But the people of Cuttack wanted no more of the mad monk. Said one: "Any sadhu who comes through here runs the risk of being stoned to death...
...parish priest in the villages of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Father Witcutt drew nearer and nearer to the God that seemed to lie just behind the veil of nature and farther and farther away from the Abstract Idea and the Beatific Vision. He found that "The God of Scholasticism was unworshipable. Nor do Roman Catholics worship Him. They cannot. They worship the Sacred Heart, the Virgin, and the Saints . . . To me Roman Catholicism seemed one of two things: either a set of dry philosophical formulae or else a range of plaster-cast statues . . . What I wanted was no vision...
...Russians have themselves become the enemy, and so the summit meeting of ten years later will be nearer in spirit to Panmunjom than to Yalta or Potsdam, its chief compulsion a mutual weariness of danger. On the West's summits this week, there was little more than a feeling that it was worth...
...Universe . . . What I mean is that the idea of detached bodies floating in space of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures . . . some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners seems to me the ideal source of form. I would have them deployed some nearer together and some at immense distances and great disparity among all the qualities of these objects and their motions as well...