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...more, it is clear now that Miller sacrificed himself to the dirty-word revolution. He learned to be an effective pornographer, and for a while this obscured the fact that he had never learned to be a competent novelist or philosopher. Readers do owe Miller a debt; in part because of his writings, it is now possible for an author to ignore sex. What readers do not owe him is a reading. That would be asking too much. While he may no longer be unprintable, he is largely unreadable...
Nigeria's saints owe their knowledge of Mormonism to an itinerant team of Church of Christ missionaries who visited the town of Uyo in 1953 and left behind, among other books and tracts, a copy of Joseph Smith's Own Story. Fascinated by the dramatic life of the Mormon prophet, Anie Dick Obot of Uyo decided to form a branch of the church in Nigeria, and wrote for more information to Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders sent back books explaining their laws and doctrines, and in 1959 dispatched to Africa Elder Lamar Williams...
...uncompromising position in its negotiations with management," a surprising comment from the boss of a union whose New York local had pre cipitated a 114-day New York news paper strike two years ago that helped kill one paper. "Members of Baltimore Typographical Union," Brown went on to say, "owe their first loyalty to the ITU. Any member returning to work under the current contract would be upholding unionism to a far greater degree than by violating ITU policy and laws in supporting another organization which could not itself have stopped publication...
Newman would not comment yesterday whether the University had directly WHRB's construction program. He say the change over "couldn't have been done without the interest and help of University officials, especially Watson, Monro, and Trottenberg. "We owe a lot to these people," he added...
Although Wood himself is as antique as his author's manner of writing, there will be men with his qualities of mind among the ruling Africans. Such men, Fowler suggests, will be able to calculate the mixed debt of resentment and gratitude they owe to the colonials...