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...World of Love. It deals principally with the effect of past passion on a hermetically sealed group of people, living in an ancient, decaying Irish castle. These five people, two young girls, their father and mother and the fortyish divorced woman who owns the castle--all are singularly purposeless. They neither concern themselves with the world at large, nor wish to, until the eldest daughter, Jane, finds a packet of love letters in a dusty trunk in the attic. This event, of course, changes all their lives, for the author of these billet doux was none other than...
Father McDonnell does not object to giving angels human bodies, or even wings. "But we do object to the portrayal of angels as harmless, effeminate creatures bored with a purposeless existence. We object to their portrayal as ethereal glamor queens looking pleasantly ineffectual. Though there are no masculine or feminine angels . . . (there can be distinction of sexes only where there are bodies), yet it is not correct to portray angels as women. God has revealed the angels to us in the masculine: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. By their nature the angels are next to God. They are powerful beings. The German...
Broadly speaking, stress diseases are caused when the "combat mechanism" of the body goes into action under some shock, the thyroid demanding a "purposeless increase" in metabolic output, the pituitary sending ACTH flooding to the adrenals, and the blood pressure, blood salt and blood sugar increasing. Once stimulated by shock, the mechanism keeps on going. The human system is exhilarated, but badly unbalanced. Exhaustion usually follows, often with a dangerous lowering of the body's normal resistance to infection...
...Spud Hill despite terrific bombardment, the 7th's men repulsed, the stretcher-bearers bringing down the casualties (three killed, 61 wounded, of whom many were stunned or scratched and returned to duty the next day). Their report home made Operation Smack seem like a staged show, bloody and purposeless. In Washington, Michigan's Republican Congressman Clare Hoffman, never one to shun a headline, sounded off loudly. The Army, he trumpeted, must explain "whether these invited guests were witnessing a spectacle similar to that where gladiators performed for the entertainment of invited guests in the time of the Roman...
...recently: "I can't bear this apartheid. I don't know what to do." It was a fear movingly described by Author Alan Paton in Cry, the Beloved Country: "Which do we prefer, a law-abiding, industrious and purposeful native people or a lawless, idle and purposeless people? The truth is that we do not know, for we fear them both . . . For we fear not only the loss of our possessions, but the loss of our superiority and the loss of our whiteness...