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Saint Theresa of Avila, "the Saint of Ecstasy," divided her existence equally between earthly toil and divine rapture. Her strenuous earthly labors led to her founding of the order of Discalced Carmelites; her ecstatic transports made her _one of the world's great mystic poets. Half genius of the supernatural, half militant nun, Theresa's gifts to posterity have become part of "the inalienable possessions of mankind...
...young French poet and schoolmaster named Joseph Bédier decided, some 50 years ago, to examine all the thousands of variations on the theme and piece them together into an "authentic" version. After years of toil the Bédier Tristan was published in Paris in 1900; grateful Frenchmen gave Author Bédier a seat in the French Academy and bought 300 editions of his book. Last month Pantheon Books published the first complete English edition of Bédier's work, brilliantly translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, illustrated by Joet Nicolas...
...Junker relatives, and on their estate he found the Spartan antidote to Weimar decadence. Prussian history books taught him that the famed Prussian tradition was founded on the rock of religious faith, that it demanded austerity, unflinching loyalty and toil. Prussianism in action was "the militant church," and those who sought to crush it attacked "the fundamental values and virtues of every monastic order in the world." The Arrogant Americans. In the black post-War I years, Hauser learned to hate both the ineffectual democracy of the Weimar Republic and the luxury-ridden democracy of the U.S. Like many...
...present a family might be gathered around the fireside enjoying the fruits of their toil when suddenly there is a knock at the door and heavily armed policemen appear. It may be that the father, son or friend sitting in the cottage is called out, taken away into the dark, and no one knows whether he would ever come back again or what is his fate...
They had to toil up a cleft with an So per cent grade near the top. Somehow, they made it. Somehow, tanks mounting both guns and flamethrowers were bulled up the slopes in support...