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...This I Cannot Do, O Lord." Labeled an "intellectual snob" by a fellow nun at the School of Tropical Medicines, Gabrielle was asked by her Mother Superior: "Would you, Sister Luke, be big enough, tall enough, to fail your examinations to show humility?" Gabrielle prayed for guidance, but concluded with her own answer: "This I cannot do, O Lord." She graduated fourth in a class of 80. The daughter of a doctor, Gabrielle had fervently hoped to be sent to the Belgian Congo as a missionary nurse. She was assigned instead to an insane asylum where 100 overworked nuns cared...
...segregation itself. Such articles, which give no credit for any reasonable efforts at conforming to the Supreme Court's decision, make us almost anxious to join Dixie demagogues just for spite. Do you honestly think it was a report of news, or just an opportunity for a Yankee snob to feel smug...
...college drama emphasizes the need for competence and suggests that all those who wish to perform in H.D.C. productions should first go through a training period. This amounts to an attempt to legislate a return to the H.D.C.'s accredited actors and the comparative amateurs made clear, the snob appeal might well be strong, leading to the development of casts and out-casts...
Along with Christian humility, readers of Lewis will find traces of the snob-inChrist. He calls churchgoing "a wearisome 'get-together' affair . . . Hymns were (and are) extremely disagreeable to me. Of all musical instruments I liked (and like) the organ least." But apart from such culture crotchets. Surprised by Joy is a crisply logical, eloquent statement of faith that makes one man's con version as convincing as it is ever likely to be to another. Lewis is a special type. And yet there is universal meaning in his description of his final crisis of faith...
...pious man, no sophist, of simple origin and sympathies, no snob; he is neutral by dint of his small country's powerlessness, but his political ideology is that of the West. "Burma and America are in the same boat-we fight the same evils," he once declared. And although he was awed and impressed by Red China during his recent visit to Peking, U Nu did not shrink from publicly proclaiming to Mao: "Americans are a very generous and brave people...