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...King Ranch, and decided she knew all about Texas. I have lived 45 years in Texas-and if I had my "druthers" would still be there-and sincerely wish someone would write about the other 7½ million or so people who live there who don't possess an oil well, a 100,000-or-more-acre ranch or a fabulous hotel. Not that I begrudge the latter one item of what they have. More power to them...
Fallen Creatures. Marie and Gilles are conventional sugar-sticks, but Agathe. straining for a love she cannot possess and Nicolas, moving from his false idolatry of Gilles to a love of God, are remarkably impressive figures, gargoyles of suffering and striving. In telling their story, Novelist Mauriac shows himself still deeply preoccupied with the fevers of the human blood; at 66, he does not pretend to a resignation he apparently cannot feel...
...what thy heart would glory to possess...
Father Connell added a practical point: "If these supposed rational beings should possess the immortality of body once enjoyed by Adam & Eve, it would be foolish for our superjet or rocket pilots to try to shoot them. They would be unkillable...
...high rank in the Midwest. More important, the university, under Hancher, is one of the boldest crusaders against the vocationalism that plagues U.S. state universities. "Somewhere," Hancher tells his students, "the art of contemplation has been lost...An occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art . . . They possess an integrity, a calm and assurance, a wholeness of mind and body that is a kind of holiness. This wholeness, this holiness, I crave...