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...Apostle (which he founded in 1958), Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, 68, felt the twinges of age and chronic asthma. "I don't want to go," he confessed, "but just as St. Paul stung his flesh, and just as President Kennedy stung his flesh, so I must sting mine to fight the enemies of morality...
...From their heavenly abode, three great American Republican personages, General Douglas MacArthur, Senator Robert A. Taft and Senator Joseph A. McCarthy, who felt the sting of political crucification by so-called moderate extremists, must have had a hand in the Miracle of San Francisco...
Arbitrary Altitude. The moon has no sea level to use as base elevation (its so-called seas are waterless plains), so Nowicki selected Mösting A, an easily identified crater near the center of the disk and gave the bottom of its crater the arbitrary altitude of 7,000 meters (23,000 ft.) to serve as reference for all other elevations. The finished map, which is 4.5 ft. in diameter, includes more than 5,000 surface features, giving elevations in hundreds of meters. One version of the map shows high and low areas in colors: the highest mountains...
...Bicinia (duets fashioned from the top two voices of five-part madrigals) Marx was at his best, changing the quality of his tone according to the needs of the movement. For finally, when considered within the context of a mature integrated musical style, even Many's tone loses its sting. He doesn't deny the importance of tone, but simply realizes its limitations as a source of beauty, and refuses to consider it the most important aspect of woodwind playing...
...still the human sting is taken out of Jocelin's fall by Golding's wish to moralize. Nature is introduced in the final pages as a healing balm, so that the dying Jocelin can say as he views the tilting spire, "It's like the apple tree." There is a kind of vague inspirationalism to it all, but the book never becomes effective as the story of a man, and emerges as a foredoomed effort to stretch a proverb into a novel...