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In terms of practical politics, given the sinful human condition, would it not be more realistic and hence more wholesome-and, as it happens, also more moral-to train now our diplomacy on the decade ahead and work for as positive a role as possible in our eventual relations to...
Searing the Streets. For some years colleges have regarded summer loafing as downright sinful. Now they tend to take a dim view of jobs like stacking canned hash in the local supermarket. To achieve that pervasive cliché, a "meaningful summer," the applicant must raise his sights-help an archaeologist...
Innate Indifference. Original sin, in contemporary interpretations, is thus seen not as a stigma inherited from Adam but as a statement of the human condition-an idea that most Catholic revisionists defend as being well within the spirit of church teaching. Jesuit Henri Rondet, for example, says that original sin...
The simple images that Camus rediscovers in the essays are the sun and sea of the North African shore, his remembrances of family, and his feeling for the physical life of the Mediterranean people. They illustrate the philosophical turn of mind that alienated him from his Algerian countrymen, whose basic...
Among Africa's first known tribal groups were the artistically talented Bushmen, who scratched out their lively rock drawings of hunters and wild animals in the Stone Age. Some 7,000 years ago, the Hamites came across the Suez, bringing a rudimentary knowledge of agriculture, and soon they intermarried with...