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Dark Night of the Soul. Without any apparent cause, all the warm joy and pleasure that the religious normally finds in prayer and the monastic routine suddenly disappears. As one contemporary has described it: "The entire spiritual world seems meaningless and unreal; even one's own most vivid spiritual experiences fade out like half-forgotten dreams. One becomes keenly, sometimes agonizingly aware of everything prosaic: heat, cold, stuffy rooms . . . excessive weariness, the irritation of the heavy, uncomfortable garments . . . other people's maddening 'little ways'; the 'sinking feeling' and depression that are inseparable from fasting...
...Republican Senator Barry Goldwater rose on the Senate floor to call Butler's statement "another sample of person-smear tactics which have now become typical of Butler's idea of political warfare . . . Our distinguished President and his wife . . . are in sound, healthy and vigorous condition-in vivid contrast to the condition of the man who ran for a fourth term and withheld information of his mortal sickness from the nation...
...cumulative. Within a day or two, the women were calmer and quieter. Soon they began to eat better, and gained up to ten pounds in two weeks. Many who had been hostile to the attendants, or had mutely avoided them, sought them out and wanted to talk. They reported vivid but not unpleasant dreams...
...construction drive has revealed the Venezuelans' exciting talent for vivid modern architecture. Their use of color-lemon yellow, white, red, and ultramarine blue-outdoes the native bougainvillea and the bright toucan birds. Red-earth gashes in the surrounding azure mountains promise more to come...
...Testament. The moral standards in India oppose any dance sequences "if there is a shaking," as well as all drinking. In the "Student Prince," for example, a song was dropped only because beer was mentioned. Sometimes a foreign government directly interfers, as when King Farouk, discomforted with the vivid portrayal of a slovish Nero, put thumbs down on "Quo Vadis." In all, many countries outlaw more American films than they admit, and sometimes pay for a portion of their movie imports with the censorship fees. But Hollywood isn't worried yet, and won't, said one producer, "until they...