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...mourning, it will bring a renewal of faith to a people who can hardly see beyond austerity, the dollar gap, and shrunken prestige. And, although an analogy is hardly in order, Britons will no doubt recall that under two earlier Queens, England reached unparalled levels of glory and success. Stranger things have occurred, and a symbol can sometimes do extraordinary things...
Thomas Sugrue-Roman Catholic journalist and author (Stranger in the Earth, Watch for the Morning)-is upset by discord between Catholics and Protestants. Unlike most Catholics who launch into print on the subject, he thinks that his own church-particularly the church in the U.S.-deserves a good deal of the blame. Author Sugrue's complaint, in the Protestant Christian Herald: the church is mixing in affairs of state and it has no business there. It began to go wrong when Christ's teachings about spiritual authority in man's subjective "inner world" began to be extended...
Pechstein happily showed up at the gallery, mingled with the crowd. He heard one stranger complain that an alpine landscape was "too sophisticated." The artist quietly joined the discussion. "It's high up in the mountains," he said. "Snow and icy waters are like that. The colors change." The amateur critic flushed when another bystander identified the old man: "Master Pechstein ought to know." But Pechstein had not come to squelch critics. Said he, beaming: "I'm happy to see so much of my work lined up together again...
Caesar is the central thing in Caesar and Cleopatra, the central thing for Cleopatra herself. The musing middle-aged stranger she addresses, between the paws of the Sphinx, as "Old gentleman," keeps her his doting pupil in queenship, but will not risk his heart. A Roman eagle Caesar is, but like the eagle, bald, and wearing a laurel wreath as a toupee. He is in any case beyond wearing laurel wreaths for show; he knows too well that the only true conqueror is the conqueror worm. Caesar is that type that always fascinated Shaw, the successful man of action...
Eisenhower's critics argue that he has never had to face the specific hazards of a congressional voting record. This is true, but Eisenhower is no stranger to the hard choice. When asked about federal aid to higher education in 1948, Columbia's Eisenhower said: "So that no one will misunderstand where an old soldier stands on that question-I will have no federal money in higher education as long as there is one single iota of federal control coming with it ... The Federal Government has no right to take tax money out of our pockets and give...