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Cambridge, being a heavily industrialized town, has more than its share of impoverished or needy citizens. A visit to the environs of the Lever Bros. plant would be enough evidence to convince the skeptic of this problem. And these needy are benefited only slightly by the increase in war jobs, since some form of physical disability often prevents any form of labor...
...find them more efficient, conscientious, and patient than men." This was too much for Grouser. "Why, I didn't even think they were human," he blurted out. By way of reply, Professor McNair called a Dr. Larsen, and warned by telephone of "the approach" of a first term skeptic." So Grouser was soon on his way to Baker...
...turned out, the lady our skeptic quizzed upon entering Baker 217 was not a secretary, but Dr. Larsen herself. While mumbling his confusion and things about "thought you were a man , and just wanted to ask you a few questions," he went boldly ahead. "I've been disillusioned five successive times by my B.P.A.'s, and have decided that it is about time to do something about it. After all, it takes a man's outlook to appreciate business problems, and I don't think girls can possibly...
Standing now at the top of his profession, in which, curiously enough, he holds no degree, William Francis Gibbs is a profound skeptic. Young Son Francis is an enthusiastic horseman, but Father Gibbs hates the sight of horseflesh. Said a member of his family: "He always suspects they're ready to bite him." In the same way he is leary of success. When a man begins to think of himself as successful, according to the Gibbsian philosophy, "he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes...
...safety, and he kept his vow. He has also kept an "older and far more unconscious vow": "In the days when I wrote my first verses I vowed that I would evermore and everywhere magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of man." For any save the most hopeless skeptic the story of Bernadette Soubirous, fully and devotedly told as it is here, is a strong recall toward "these ultimate values of our mortal lot." Her life is not merely, as Werfel says, "the greatest miracle of modern times," it is also the victorious pitting of the undefended and essential...