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...dismay of the Vatican, an international committee of intellectuals-including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley and Historian Arnold Toynbee -has posthumously sponsored publication of his major works. Teilhard, who was known in his lifetime as one of the discoverers of the Peking Man, thought of himself as "a pilgrim of the future," and his reputation continues to grow: a museum in Paris bears his name, more than 500 monographs and 30 books have been written about him since his death, and last month 40 top European scholars gathered in Venice for a seminar to discuss his ideas...
...born with a soul for the picturesque," confesses the middle-aged hero of A Passionate Pilgrim. "I found a world all hard lines and harsh lights, without shade, without composition, without the lovely mystery of color. I went about with my brush touching up and toning down. A very pretty chiaroscuro you'll find in my track!" A failure in America, he goes to England, where the charm of the rain-wet countryside convinces him that life must be gentler there. He visits an aristocratic relative, dreams of living on his sumptuous estate and marrying his sister. But though...
Plymouth trip leaves Sunday morning at 9 a.m., and will last eight hours. Buses will stop at the Adams' mansions in Quincy, Webster's home in Marshfield, and other points along the way. time will be allowed in Plymouth to see Plymouth Rock, a fine reconstruction of the original Pilgrim settlement, and the Mayflower exact reconstruction of the original ship). The tour will also Plymouth museum, and the old cemetery; if there is time, will continue to the Cape Cod Canal...
Nowhere to Nowhere. Hundreds of Englishmen exist for the sole purpose of keeping branch lines running, raising cash to rent doomed sections from Railway Boss Beeching, making weekend pilgrim ages to such officially abandoned routes as the Bluebell ("Nowhere to Nowhere") loop in Sussex. Despite a petition signed by 25,000 rail buffs, the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines in the United Kingdom (SRUBLUK) failed to keep open the scenic reach between Westerham and Dunton Green in Kent last October...
...Pilgrims. As the novel opens, centuries after the curse, the stranger (for the novel names him only in its title) appears suddenly out of a storm, seeking refuge in an inn for medieval pilgrims to the Holy Land. Somewhere upstairs are the rich Christians, with their finery and servants. But the pilgrims among whom the stranger finds himself are a rabble. Some are drunk. Others rob and cheat each other. One girl finances her pilgrimage by sleeping with whichever pilgrim has the price...