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...longer be possible for British juries to give contemptuous damages of one farthing. Then again, the King James version of the New Testament will call for amendment; see the Gospel according to St. Matthew, V, 26: "Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." And X, 29: "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing...
...planting, the U.N. also has rushed in seed, is handing out 10,000 hoes so that the Balubas can sow the dry, sandy soil before the end of the planting season in February. But some of the starving tribesmen are too weak to bury their own dead, much less till the soil. Others are so hungry that they toss the hoes aside and simply eat the seed...
Still worried about the extremists ("Wait till those cops leave"), the moderates plan to escort the Negroes after the police stop, have "400 people we can count on." They can also count on the firm support of an aroused faculty, which is not only doing sentry duty across the campus but is also speaking out loud and clear for reason. When the state legislature introduced a resolution to censure the faculty for its stand last week, one professor snorted: "If they're serious about telling the university what the faculty has a right to say, they can have their...
...famine, not pestilence, not war will bring back seriousness," Kierkegaard once said. "It is not till the eternal punishments of hell regain their reality that man will turn serious." German Philosopher Karl Jaspers feels that there is a fairly vivid equivalent of the horrors of hell in the threatened nuclear extinction of the human race. The Future of Mankind is a stern call to seriousness. It is also a call to reason, courage and responsibility. It is based on a premise that may sound bleak, but has probably been the rock of man's endurance through the ages...
...Show Girl, Actress Channing is at her best doing what first won her praise on Broadway: she spoofs the sillier musicomedies of the '20s till every inanity glitters, and with a magic that in the very act of murdering old musicals can bring them back to life. Today's grim musical dramas are not as funny targets, nor has Carol as fine a touch for them, but her Switchblade Bess, at least, has inspired moments. If much of Show Girl rather smacks of family jokes, it is at any rate a well-known family-Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Tucker...