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Stamped Out. In Kodara Village, Japan, Local Postmaster Seiichi Higashiza-wa, 33, short of government funds and faced with a visit by inspectors, burned down the post office.
The East German Parliament rubber-stamped the demand of the justice minister, Hilde Benjamin, for powers to prosecute fleeing citizens. They now are escaping from the satellite at the rate of about 800 a day.
As a young man, Buck realized that he did not belong at Glenwood, and asked for parole. His requests were ignored. Free to go into town when he wanted, Buck could have simply gone over the hill. But the institutional pattern had been stamped too deep in him. Five years...
In the third of his Noble lectures, Miller discussed the relationship between Christianity and history. Our tradition is a Christian tradition, he said, and "even those who live out on the rebel fringe of society are stamped with the image of Christ."
The nature of that revelation is the theme of The Court and the Castle, 16 literary essays based on Rebecca West's Dwight Harrington Terry Foundation lectures at Yale. Author West agrees with Turgenev, who said: "There is not one of us but recognizes in the prince . . . our own...