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Governments often live to a ripe old age in Canada, but none in the nation's history had lived as long as the Liberal regime in the central prairie province of Manitoba. Last week, after 43 years, the regime at last lost a provincial election-just one year after the fall of the national Liberal government that had ruled for 22 years...
...sense of the report," summed up Amsterdam's Roman Catholic daily De Tijd, "comes down to this . . . The great design which was proclaimed like a trumpet call throughout The Netherlands-to make the Papuans ripe for independent activity in all fields-remains a slogan...
...Young has taught for ten years, asked him to do a translation for a dramatics group. The play: Aristophanes' The Frogs, which, because it is less scabrous than most other Greek comedies, is the one most often served up in freshman courses. But even mild Aristophanes is as ripe as Roquefort, and scholars' English translations tend toward the tepid. Young's translation of The Puddocks (frogs) does...
...word of caution must be spoken to Catholics and Protestants alike. Catholics in their simplicity may easily think that the Protestant willingness to come nearer to Catholicism in doctrine and religious cult is a sign that Protestants are now ripe for conversion to the Catholic church. Such an interpretation of events would be woefully erroneous. We simply must face the fact that for the Protestant this action confirms him in his Protestantism." On the other hand, in the Protestant-Catholic dialogue, he said, the Protestant must understand "that the Catholic hasn't the slightest intention of becoming a Protestant...
...mistresses, bodyguards and generals, tailors, aides-de-camp, and such luminaries of the age as Goethe and Metternich. Out of the intimate, often lurid documentation emerges no hero but a devastating closeup of the man who convinced Frenchmen they were a race of heroes, and split nations apart like ripe fruit to show that "given 500,000 men, one can do anything...