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...orthodoxy will not suffice. I love the creeds. I recite them, and I think I have overcome honestly the intellectual obstacles they raise. But when anyone tries to tell an Episcopalian that he is unequivocally - which means without variety of interpretation - committed to a particular creed. I can only remind him of the wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead who said, 'Religions commit suicide when they find their imperatives in their dogmas...
...pays his help well; a few Neiman clerks, working on commission as well as salary, can earn up to $25,000 a year. In return Marcus demands that they be unfailingly polite no matter how uncouth the customer may seem. He likes to remind them of the cotton-smocked girl who once came in straight off her father's farm. Papa had just struck oil, and Daughter spent $10,000 to outfit herself in style, including shoes for her bare feet...
This collection of three related novellas is John O'Hara's best work in years. The stories remind one strongly of the author's early novels, and not only because the suicide of Julian English, the hero of Appointment in Samarra, is an offstage incident in one of them. The prose has the great clarity of all of O'Hara's writing, and an economy of expression that he has seemed afraid to trust in such vast recent novels as From the Terrace and Ten North Frederick...
...been responsible for the enactment--and the emasculation--of more liberal legislation than in any era since the Hundred Days. For both the enactment and the emasculation he has incurred the love and wrath of almost everybody around. He has, as both his defenders and his detractors remind us, "bridged the gap" between North and South, liberal and conservative, Douglas, in a word, and East-land. And by doing so he has kept the machinery running...
When Eve was first exhibited during the Victorian age, people had to remind themselves that the mother of mankind had been "naked and was not ashamed" and that there was no need to fear it would introduce "foreign indelicacy among our women...