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During the past century, every revision of the Methodist hymnal has tended to reduce its Wesleyan content. Reversing the trend, the 1966 edition includes 81 hymns by John and Charles Wesley, 20 more than the 1935 version contained. Also included is a nostalgic fundamentalist favorite that was left out of...
Perched on the rugged shore of Cook Inlet, the remote Alaskan community of Tyonek might well pass for an upper-middle-class Midwestern suburb. Its 60 houses (average price: $25,000), all equipped with modern appliances and television, stand along winding, tree-lined streets. It has a glistening commu nity...
If the reasons for the war do not always seem clear to all Americans, few can fail to be moved by the tales of individual valor and self-sacrifice that the conflict has inspired. One of the most gallant of all was written last week on the rugged Kontum plateau...
Burns's first mistake was his unsubstantiated charge that former State Senator Scott Kelly, a rugged upcountry conservative who ran a strong third in the original Democratic primary, had offered to sell his support in the runoff for $500,000. Burns's idea was to discredit Kelly; instead...
Born in Genoa, Montale was raised on the rugged impoverished Ligurian coast, the Waste Land that most of his poems inhabit: "Boulders . . . marshes . . . blistering suns and low air fogged with midges . . . waterspouts like giant trumpets of lead on the flogged horizons." At 21, he exchanged one desolation for another: the...