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...Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba it was a week of humiliation. Lumumba's first setback came from the hands of the 13-nation African "summit" conference he had grandiosely convened in a nondescript Leopoldville auditorium. Lumumba had hoped his brother Africans would promise him military aid and moral support. Instead, delegates from Tunisia, Morocco and the Algerian rebel "government" had a message of their own for Lumumba to hear: they were alarmed by his irresponsible attacks on the United Nations. "Lumumba's childish behavior is damaging all Africans," rasped one North African...
Like a good liberal nineteenth-century freethinker, the typical Harvard non-believer doodles with arguments about an entity named God as if this merely happened to be a nondescript question that struck his fancy. Instead of being made more complacent by Hume and Freud, he needs to be jarred by Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, Pascal and Dostoyevski, into the realization that the religious question is the question of questions, that the problem of God is not whether an entity exists or does not exist--about which a cautious skepticism might make sense--but whether the spiritual dynamo of an entire civilization...
Like a good liberal nineteenth-century free thinker, he doodles with arguments about an entity named God as if this merely happened to be a nondescript question that struck his fancy. Instead of being made more complacent by Hume and Freud, he needs to be jarred by Kierkegaard and Nietzsche into the realization that the religious question is the questions of questions, that the problem of God is not whether an entity exists or does not exist--about which a cautious skepticism might make sense--but whether the spiritual dynamo of an entire civilization is still running or not, whether...
...second floor of a nondescript building in Greenwich Village, above a reducing salon (and around the corner, for those who care, from the residence of e. e. cummings), there is published every week an anomalous organ called the Village Voice, which has served as the bottle from which the comic genie Jules Feiffer was launched upon a small but highly appreciative world. There are other good things in the bottle, but so far only Feiffer, whose cartoons continue to appear there weekly, has risen from oblivion to the Voice and then directly to paperback publication, autograph-signing tours of college...
...fight; and the Senator's flow of rheum continued. "At first," Mrs. Pusey recalls, "Senator McCarthy wasn't interested in the President of Lawrence College. But the President of Harvard, he knew, was someone who would get him national coverage." She recollects having met McCarthy only once, a youngish, nondescript man on a railroad train parlor car to Chicago...