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...China, Christianity has no competition-except secularism-among educated people. Its greatest handicap is the appalling poverty of the country. The inflation has been most ruinous to those upon whom the spread of Christianity depends...
...Yearling's dramatic scenes are cunningly, almost too-knowingly manipulated, but they are nonetheless effective: the bear hunt, the ruinous rainy spell, Pa's near-fatal snake bite, the deer killing, Jody's perpetual wonder at a wonderful world, Penny Baxter's deep and tender understanding of his wife's and son's troubles. Underscoring all these emotion-mauling theatrics is a musical background that sounds as if it might have been recorded by the Heavenly Choir itself...
...tedious rubble. He saw a heart-touching sweep of Norman, Gothic and Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell. The 814-year-old abbey (desecrated by order of Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which once had flourished there. "Beauty," says he, "ought to live. Ruins, as ruins, always make me want to vomit. It seemed to me then that the stones of Fountains were bleeding...
Constantly, in this persistent dream, Elwes and the monk kept saying: "It was built for God; it must be returned to God." Constantly, as he recovered, the conviction grew upon Elwes that God had ruined him physically because he had made ruinous use of his talent as an artist. God had prepared him to become responsible for a great work of art-the restoration of Fountains Abbey and its rededication as a monastery...
...vast and obvious failure of foresight is [that] Brave New World contains no reference to nuclear fission. . . . The next phase may be atomic warfare . . . but it is conceivable that we have enough sense [to confine ourselves] to a period, not indeed of peace, but of . . . only partially ruinous warfare. . . . During that period the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must...