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...dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference to decide how our national assets should be divided." Continued Zik: "Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I venture the prediction that the experience of the Congo will be child's play if it ever comes our turn to play such...
...turned out that the cousin was indeed an authority on "dirty books;" she even helps select them for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As soon as she had all the details, she called the chairman and asked him to summon a meeting of the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission, in order that it might consider the case of the notorious Fanny Hill, which is chock full of tales of sexual experiences...
...alone. At the threequarter mark, he was 25 yds. in front-and slowly, almost imperceptibly, his pace slackened. The crowd waited anxiously for his famed kick, that last fierce dash to the finish. But there was no one near him, no one to trigger him, and he could summon only part of it. Time...
...nation's 244 prelates can summon the services of 57,000 priests and 180,000 sisters. Although the church suffers more dropouts than it likes to admit (largely among Italians and Latin Americans, and among Catholics who marry outside the faith), and the number of converts is declining, the losses are more than made up by the more than 1,000,000 babies baptized as Catholics every year. According to Chicago's Priest-Sociologist Andrew Greeley, "the religious practice of American Catholics is far and away the best of any industrial nation in the world." One survey...
...shame he would not admit." Just how far Mississippi's troubles extend back into history is examined in Absalom, Absalom! That history is inexorably racial. The novel mercilessly strips away the romantic Southern mythology to reveal the brutal repression of slavery, the arrogance of plantation owners who could summon Negro girls to their beds as if they were ordering the carriage brought around to the door, the guilt behind the Southern obsession with "purity of blood," and the consequences down through the generations of the white man's refusal ever to recognize his Negro offspring, his inability ever...