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...evidence of doctrinal tolerance, church merger negotiations in the U.S. are being quietly balked. At least some of the opposition to church union, argues Methodist Theologian J. Robert Nelson of Oberlin College in the current Theology Today, is so "arbitrary and irresponsible" that he satirically wonders if some Dark Unseen Presence might be behind it. With a bow to C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters, Nelson suggests seven ways that the Devil might have devised to block the road to union...
...every political scientist knows, there is something more to the club than its outward friendliness. It is the unseen power structure of the Senate, commonly called the Establishment, that every freshman Senator must work with. Political scientists seem to know more about it than freshmen senators, some of whom cautiously admitted only the possibility of its existence...
...zannes; Kuhn got John Quinn to invest in modern art. Collectors Walter Arensberg and Stephen C. Clark both bought from the show. The Metropolitan Museum of Art became the first U.S. museum to buy a Cézanne; a San Francisco dealer snapped up Duchamp's Nude sight unseen. As a matter of fact, Duchamp and his brother, Jacques Villon, sold everything they had on display...
...your article (March 14) on "The Unseen Foreigner...
Costanza died soon after, and Frederick grew up in Palermo, an unseen and uncared-for ward of the Pope. The boy, living almost as a beggar child, learned Arabic from the seaport's Arab sailors. He was to learn more than half a dozen other languages, including Hebrew and English. At 14 he was crowned King of Sicily. He held no power and had neither arms nor money. But by his late teens, chiefly by force of an agile mind and a personality radiantly well suited to rabble-and noble-rousing, he had seized control of his inherited German...