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Sick Man of Europe. The torch of Islamic empire-building passed in time from Arab to Seljuk to Mongol to Ottoman Turk. All the while, Islam was intellectually withdrawing from engagement with alien thought, under the influence of the mystical Sufis, and the orthodox ulama (scholars) who saw all wisdom in the Koran and Moslem tradition. By the 19th century, Islam was enfeebled in body as well as spirit; lands once ruled by Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent became European protectorates; Turkey, resident of the impotent caliphs, was the "sick man of Europe...
...Joseph, Minn., Sculptor Joseph O'Connell ambles out of the surrounding woods twice weekly, leaving his wife and eight children behind, to demonstrate his method of sculpting at the College of St. Benedict, a Catholic women's school. There he fires up an acetylene torch and shows the girls how he carves in metal, presumably leaving them with a lifelong interest in both sculpture and blowtorches. The 642 students at St. Benedict's even enjoy a second artist in residence: Playwright George Herman (his From Sea to Shining Sea has been optioned by Manhattan's Lincoln...
...pleasant countryside, there are pictures of Kennedy's family; the austere background music of the first hour is replaced by a twinkling Irish ballad. There is the inevitable comparison with Lincoln (he alone "sits unmoved" as the procession passes by) and there are shots of the eternal flame ("the torch has been passed"). As the curtain closes, the narrator says that "Kennedy is invisible, but so is peace, and so are love and dreams...
...Shame on TIME for saying that fundamentalism cannot withstand critical Biblical scholarship and scientific facts. Fundamentalists do not need to fear the facts of science. The much-maligned simple believer is in reality carrying a torch of truth to the next generation...
...replica of the statue, demonstrated to his colleagues that it would be a simple matter to break the lock on a door leading from the statue's head (where a million tourists annually stare out at the harbor through windows in the crown) into the 42-ft.-long torch-bearing arm, from which the public is excluded. At the statue's shoulder, Bowe reported, the Black Liberation boys could plant a few sticks of dynamite, detonate them with electrical blasting caps, and-bang!-in one blast the "damned old bitch" would be rendered both headless and torchless...