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...outline can give even the superficial taste of this big (912-page) book. It contains hundreds of characters, scenes that range from harsh realism through satire and humor to passages of Joycean impressionism, Whitmanesque poetry. In form it is variously a narrative, an epic, a diatribe, a chronicle, a psalm, but in essence it is a U. S. voice. Author Wolfe's whole theme: "Why is it we have crossed the stormy seas so many times alone, lain in a thousand alien rooms at night hearing the sounds of time, dark time, and thought until heart, brain, flesh...
Father Coughlin concluded his address by reciting as a prayer the 82nd Psalm, with interpolations. Excerpts: "Oh God . . . thy enemies have made a noise. . . . They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people. . . . They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation, and let the name of Israel (America) be remembered no more. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant (League of Nations) against thee...
...ruined its thousands, the Depression its tens of thousands. So runs the modern psalm from which Author Flodson has taken his text. But readers who excusably shy off from one more English story of industrial tragedy in the Midlands need not be so quick to leave Author Hodson's vicinity. This novel of the boom and its collapse in cotton-spinning Lancashire is woven with a deft hand; though the pattern is not new, Author Hodson keeps it from seeming drab...
...Psalter-Hymnal." U.P.'s have their choice of droning through often unmusical Psalm music or singing more spirited hymn music...
...rising vote the commissioners adopted a plan of union, which cannot become final in less than two years, with the United Presbyterian Church of North America which has 1,121 congregations and 242,996 members. United Presbyterians are called "Psalm-Singers" because their church admits no hymns. Having voted this merger, the commissioners burst into the Doxology and "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord...