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...decidedly inaccurate to refer to Unitarianism as "a sort of vague Christianity without Christ." Although its early historical roots were in the Judaeo-Christian heritage, Unitarian religious philosophy has increasingly become a process of the rational-ethical-universal-mystical, and especially of the humanistic. These many tentacles represent a strength, not a diffusion...
...most cases, seemed more interested in upgrading their societies than in waging war or swaggering around the globe. At home, the former professor felt, after 13 years of assassination, social upheaval and scandal, a more mature and understanding people now wanted time to examine their values and sort out their individual lives...
...fees from rice deals to give kickbacks to Congressmen? No, no, he said, the money was used to establish schools and new companies in Korea. "Washington is like my second home," said Park, but he would not even think of returning without guarantees against the sort of "gross exaggeration" that he has seen in the U.S. press. "Under no circumstances," he said, "will I respond to summonses from the U.S. Congress. Nor will I see Jaworski...
...moth-soft dazzle of the temples'" at Agrigento. In a little Sicilian town called Chaos, the birthplace of Pirandello, Durrell watched sunlight "worthy of a nervous breakdown by Turner." When a local doctor was summoned to treat a tourist in Durrell's party, "he had a singular sort of expression, a sort of holy expression which one suddenly realised came from the fact that he was scared stiff in case someone asked him a question in a foreign language...He looked in fact as if he had just emerged after partaking of the Eucharist with Frank Sinatra...
...Vegas, her backup group, the Ikettes, was gone but her ex, Ike, was right there -in the audience. "We're friends really. There's no war," says Tina. Their 1976 divorce, she feels, was good for her. Explains Tina: "Before, Ike was always there to sort of take care of things. Now I have to take charge. It's a responsibility and a little bit of a headache. But I'm learning...