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Figueres, educated at M.I.T. and recently divorced from an American wife, is something of a phenomenon in Costa Rica. After college, he bought a barren finca in Cartago which he called La Lucha Sin Fin (Struggle Without End), in recognition of the farmer's never-ending battle with nature. There he learned firsthand about the peasants' problems, set up a private welfare state for his own workers. He built them clean bungalows, saw them well fed from a community vegetable farm and a dairy that provided free milk for every child. In 1948, when the outgoing government tried...
When Tobey exhorted the nation to rise above sin and return to its virtuous old ways, he evoked the faint tinkle of a Salvation Army tambourine. "When the hearts of men and women are touched," he cried, "they take their inspiration from the Master of Men, and then we will have . . . in this nation a nation in which dwelleth righteousness-and before God it is high time." No one doubted Tobey's sincerity; he spoke from the heart. Once, he was so moved by his own eloquence that he burst into tears...
...late Bishop James A. Griffin of the Roman Catholic diocese of Springfield denounced a passage from Stoddard's book. The Meaning of Intelligence: "Manmade concepts such as devils, witches, taboos, hellfire, original sin . . . and divine revelation . . . have distorted the intellectual processes of millions." Unitarian Stoddard protested that, taken as a whole, his book urged a "return to religion." Gradually, the storm blew over, but it was never forgotten...
...sin to let the fun begin...
Judgment Drums. The rest of the animal kingdom, of course, has to die a little so that Wilson can live, including not only an elephant, but, as bad luck would have it, a native hunter too. As he drives away from the scene of his sin, the African drums drub out a judgment: "White hunter, black heart...