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Memphis' radio station WDIA can make some rare claims: it finds jobs for unemployed, picks up hospital bills, supports a home for crippled children, hands out scholarships, even locates stray mules for farmers. For its pains, WDIA tops every station in the mid-South in ratings and advertisers. What makes it all the more unusual is that it is a "Negro station"-the biggest and oldest U.S. station beamed at Negro listeners...
...late teens, is assigned to a convent in Belgium. Like Sister Luke of The Nun's Story, she suffers the shock of initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of the eyes," i.e., never letting them stray from a modest downward glance; the "instruments of penance," ranging from a scourging cord to metal knee and elbow bracelets studded with blunt-tipped nails. As early as her fifth day, Sister Ursula feels "a dreadful sick sensation as though an immense and clammy toad had settled just below...
These themes very soon became hackneyed and commonplace, boring the readers, but authors under the direct control of the Communist Party couldn't do anything about it. During his period of creativity, stop lights flash in the author's mind's eye warning him not to stray from the path marked out by the almighty Party. Such authors had an audience, of course, because it was compulsory for us to study the cliches they wrote, but they had no followers. Indeed, all branches of communist art lose themselves in a blind alley. Art is a decaying skeleton, kept from complete...
...real business of yesterday was conducted sporadically on the edge of the field by a Doctor who divided his time between examining an astonishing number of injured players and squirting ether at a stray dog. The dog got away, but the injured included all but two or three of the varsity's first team...
Luther's slow rebellion during the next decade is a puzzling, fascinating story to theologian and psychiatrist alike. Tentatively, the earnest, orthodox-minded monk began to stray from the fold-and with every step he took, a new, hidden facet appeared in his character until he became the very opposite of his former self...