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...nearly a quarter of a century, U.S. Protestantism has been resigned to letting the hungry sheep of the city subsist on a starvation diet. As middle-class neighborhoods decayed into slums, vestrymen and clergy often gave up, sold their empty churches to Pentecostal sects or parking lot operators. But the tide is beginning to turn, as mainstream churches have raised a new generation of dedicated Protestant ministers who are bringing religion alive again in their once-dying urban parishes. Every denomination has some of these clerical heroes, but none are more dedicated than those who belong to the sedate Protestant...
...Reader Drimmer is correct. Since New York was a colony, Zenger was tried under English law, which stated that "if people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion...
...Christmas. Heppenstall's The Greater Infortune concerns a Scot named A. W. Leckie who goes bankrupt, settles in London with his incredibly cheerful wife Alison, and begins to subsist on handouts from a rich homosexual. He goes partying with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took...
...reply at all, on the ground that "no answer will be the most effective answer." As for the 1,000,000 refugees, the Arab states would consider nothing less than full restoration of their lost lands in Israel, apparently condemning the refugees indefinitely to their squalid camps, where they subsist on a $30 million annual dole, 70% paid by the U.S. and 20% by Britain...
Instead Dillon proposed a private enterprise version of the Government's rigid per diem system. Since traveling civil servants get only $12 a day for expenses, explained Dillon (himself a millionaire stockbroker), businessmen should learn to subsist-at least for tax purposes-on a $30 daily allowance. He was prepared to concede a daily allowance ($4 to $7 per guest) for "modest" business lunches, but coldly proposed eliminating all deductions for expenses incurred for business entertaining "at such functions as parties, nightclubs, theaters, country clubs and fishing trips...