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...such glimpses of life in the ecclesiastical upper-world, readers of My New World, the second volume of his autobiography,* had to plow through 396 close-packed pages of memories, opinions, tributes to old friends, quotations from pious writers, fragments from, old diaries. But to balance these they could get 1) a good account of how The Art of Thinking, rejected by Harper, Harcourt Brace, Macmillan, Scribner, became a best-seller (total sales: more than 400,000 copies); 2) some shrewd observations on U. S. women, embedded in praise too fulsome to be called flattery; 3) an account...
...overstatement, they do manage to take a good deal of the monasticism out of the boarding school. They make their room the stamping-ground of a campaign to do something for Donkin, the housemaster. He is beginning to suffer for his unsuccessful resistance against the inhumanity of the grotesquely pious housemaster. The three young women start things off with a cocktail housewarming in the middle of the night, thus beginning a merry demoralization that almost results in the ruin of the worthy master, under whose nose it all takes place. When they think that they have cost...
...first novel, The Gray Notebook, begins when pious, portly Widower Oscar-Marie Thibault discovers that his 14-year-old son Jacques has run away from home after getting mixed up in a scandal at school. Guiltless of anything worse than writing high-flown, affectionate, freethinking notes to a young Protestant, young Jacques flees to Marseille with his easy-going friend Daniel, paces the streets and broods about right and wrong while Daniel is befriended by a warm-hearted girl who solves some moral problems for him without a moment's thought...
Hollis scholarship, established in 1722, "for pious young students designed for the ministry," awarded to Edward C. Dahl '38, of New Haven, Connecticut...
...nominated, much less elected, unless he or she is openly and zealously for the Party and the State of Stalin, except in distant or rural communities where, from the point of view of Moscow, the whole political apparatus may have "got into the wrong hands"-say those of the pious...