Word: unkindnesses
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...faceless, but curiously fragile. Recently, a young, African art student at Uganda's Makerere College set out to make his own symbol. Gregory Maloba, 19, had some tribal lore in the back of his head, little knowledge of any other art tradition. Death, he thought, should be "not unkind but inscrutable." Out of a three-foot mahogany log, he carved a horned shape of power (see cut). Maloba's Death did no grinning, whispering, or shoulder-tapping; the Shape stood pityingly behind its victim, and crushed...
...economics, with no intent to be funny. It also carries serious reviews of the movies, theater and books-but with a difference. Says Editor Knox: "The New Yorker is so scornful of everything. Nothing is quite good enough in their eyes. We try not to be too bitter or unkind...
...Warren's sentences suggested the full horror perhaps better than anything else: "I'm not so worried about the killing of 50 to 75 million people as I am about the wiping out of resources." Dr. Warren is not callous or unkind. (His precautions at Bikini were so thorough that "not a doggone participant got into any trouble.") What Dr. Warren meant was simply that atomic bombs, concentrated on the world's most productive areas, would reduce, by much more than 75 million, the number of people the planet could support...
...Among all the heresies and sects . . . to the destruction of the Catholic church, not a one has a better appearance and greater external holiness than the Anabaptists. . . . They call each other brothers and sisters; they use no profanity nor unkind language; they use no weapons of defense. They are temperate in eating and drinking, they use no vain display of clothes. . . . They do not go to law before judicial courts, but bear everything patiently, as they say, in the Holy Spirit. Who would suppose that under this sheep's clothing only ravening wolves are hidden...
...unkind Manhattan ballet critic felt that she had said everything that needed saying...