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Provocative Perfume. The most lucidly honest autobiography since Rousseau's Confessions, The Seven Storey Mountain found a surprisingly receptive audience in the uneasy, searching postwar world. The book was a frank, self-effacing narrative of Merton's peripatetic youth: his dizzying year at Cambridge, his first grapplings with...
Naturally Discouraged. Abel's sudden blossoming into print and native recognition is somewhat surprising. Last week he even appeared in a movie based partly on his own experiences. Russia long denied that he was a spy, or indeed a Soviet citizen at all. At Abel's 1957 trial...
Relevant Ecumenical Love Personal Human Vocation Rich and Meaningful Implemental Dialogue Integrated In Terms of Crisis Authentic Grass Roots Witness Real Transitional Response Optional Chardinian Commitment Incarnational Communal Identity Christian Existential Liturgy Fulfilling Experimental Encounter I suspect that he would impress many clerics over, and all clerics under, the magic...
His bumbling hero, Sam Fong, is the perfect dupe. Trapped in an East African revolution, he gives up his vocation as a carpenter and buys a worthless grocery store from a wily Indian named Fakhru. Fakhru fleeces Fong daily, ultimately conning him into buying 27 cases of black-market UNICEF...
Pleuthner himself is no less eccentric than his home. Wheezing and bent with age, he is nonetheless chipper and determined as a bright sparrow. A practicing architect since 1906, he has some 50 lavish country residences to his credit, including his own beleaguered castle. Lately he has returned to his...