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Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?") I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
...touched. Playing solitaire on the night before his record attempt, Campbell turned up the ace and queen of spades in succession. "Mary Queen of Scots had the same combination before she was beheaded," he remarked. "I know that one of my family is going to get the chop. I pray to God it isn't me." And there he was at 8 o'clock next morning, clambering into Bluebird's cockpit, clutching his lucky Teddy bear, Mr. Whoppit. Then he revved up Bluebird's 4,520-lb.-thrust Orpheus jet engine and shrieked off across...
Duty of Involvement. The lona Community now numbers 125 ministers, 25 lay members, and 600 lay associates who contribute to its support. During the summers, many of them have gathered on lona to pray and study together -and to work on the restoration of the island's medieval abbey, which fell into ruin after the Reformation. The rest of the year, members of the community work in Britain's industrial slum parishes, preaching lona's ideals: the Christian duty of political and social involvement, and the necessity of sacramental worship. Thoroughly ecumenical, the lona Community includes Anglicans...
...convent-and are seeking new ways to live out this ideal in secular life. One such experiment is the Community of Christian Service in Pueblo, Colo., founded last summer by 13 former Sisters of Notre Dame. The women took private vows of chastity and poverty, live and pray together in a house rented from the diocese. When not pursuing secular occupations-most of them are teachers-they do welfare work among the poor of Pueblo...
...Columnist Geoffrey Moorhouse also saw it in those terms. "For Catholicism," he wrote, "it is a blow as bitter as the one Anglicans sustained 100 years ago when John Henry Newman departed for Rome." Davis' friend and superior, John Cardinal Heenan of Westminster, said only that he would pray "that God will guide him in all his undertakings...