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Sanctified Fabric. The Bible, points out Old Testament Scholar Loren Fisher, tells of a "God of nature" as well as the more frequently emphasized "God of history." This God abhors pagan nature worship, but he decrees that all creation is good and holds his servant, man, accountable for what happens to it. Scripture even urges the practice of soil conservation (Leviticus 25: 2-5), kindness to animals (Exodus 23: 12) and preservation of trees (Deuteronomy...
This to me is not going to be a threat in the sense that if we put blacks in charge of then communities they are going to run all the whites out. What black parents want are results. They want their kids to learn. The purely civil servant who's watching the time clock is going to be put out. But whites who have a sense of commitment, heart as well as head, will be hired. And black people are not going to tolerate black people who are going to do nothing but rap in the classrooms...
...ring slipped on Venus' finger by a nervous bridegroom brings her to life, and love is reborn in a cold climate. The cast of characters, Burgess has explained, is drawn fondly from stock theatrical figures: "The boneheaded gold-hearted country squire in plus fours, the pert and resourceful servant, the grim but reliable chatelaine, the sweet guileless young lovers, the comic Anglican clergyman." Only a writer who can bring such scarecrows to life would be willing to proclaim, let alone admit, that his characters come out of a fusty stage wardrobe. In The Eve of Saint Venus, this miracle...
Died. Anna Louise Strong, 84, Nebraska-born writer and unswerving servant first of Soviet and then Chinese Communism; of heart disease; in Peking. Miss Strong became devoted to Marxism while touring Russia with a relief mission in the '20s and spent the rest of her life glorifying it-first from the Soviet Union, where she edited the English language Moscow Daily News and after World War II from Communist China, where she extolled Chairman Mao in a monthly publication Letter from China...
...favor with the state and national Republican parties. After all, the Republicans want to maintain power in the Northeast amidst the liberal challenge, and presumably will support Sargent's reelection campaign this year. Sargent emerged from the nationally covered signing ceremony looking like a dutiful, and moderate, public servant-undoubtedly the sort of image the governor hopes to maintain in the months before election...