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...United States had no cause to fear an oil shortage for quite a while. Vast new fields are now being opened up in Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, etc, which make the East Texas fields look like kiddy-stuff. We are also finding better ways of getting oil out of sand and other untapped sources...
Then he went to inspect a submarine, turned up later at the enlisted men's beach for his daily dip and a two-hour sunning. The red of his nose was peeling and turning to tan. He lolled in the sand in a T-shirt and white duck trousers, a canvas helmet shading his face. He looked like a man without a care in the world...
Along New York's Swing Lane (sand Street), where nightclubs in sorry brownstones crowd each other like bums on a breadline, an era was all but over. Swing was still there, but it was more hips than horns. Barrelhouse had declined. Burlesque was back...
...sundown, in Colorado Springs last week, the watercolor copies within the museum lay smooth and undisturbed, looking as if some squatting Navajo had just pinched out a last blue border on the sand, and then suddenly and silently vanished...
Theology & Liturgy. For a revitalization of Protestantism, the first thing needed, says Theologian Niebuhr, is a return to theology: "Theology is one of the conduits of faith without which the water which rises in the springs of Evangelicalism runs into the sand." Also needed is "an adequate liturgy. . . . American Protestantism cannot regain its spiritual vitality without seeking for a better synthesis between religious spontaneity and religious tradition and discipline...