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...familiar places. They crowded the cities in meetings and conventions (in Minneapolis 50,000 members of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine marched for three hours). They poured by the thousands over the central plains, coursing over highways that shouted with signs ("See Harold Warp's Pioneer Village at Minden, Nebraska," and "SNAKES!"), conjured up technicolor dreams as they stood in the weed-grown parade ground of Fort Laramie, Wyo. under the flapping flag of the most important post of Western frontier days. And few who took highway 340 through the staid Amish community...
...Middle Ages and the Age of Faith, sighs many a modern Catholic, when the undivided Church was the warp and the woof of daily life, when men and not machines were the makers and doers. Nonsense, said the Rev. Walter J. Ong, S.J. last week to the 14th annual Spring Symposium of the Catholic Renascence Society in Manhattan. Today, according to Father Ong, an assistant professor of English at St. Louis University, is more an Age of Faith than the 13th century ever...
Obviously, the new discovery will result in a disastrous American social philosophy. The very warp and woof of American society is woven with the virile strands of Darwin and Herbert Spencer. Everyone knows that such stalwarts as Andrew Carnegie and Jay Gould, the true fathers of our country, the pioneers of our economic Manifest Destiny, were ardent champions of the tooth-and-nail existence...
...composer must be a weaver; his creations, like cloth, have warp and woof, and some degree of lightness or heaviness, thickness or thinness, to say nothing of color. Last evening's Paine Hall concert by the Cambridge Quartet and assisting artists offered a particularly fine chance to study musical texture, especially since the musicians included some of the College's best...
...Mannerist artists sensed the full impact of the world in crisis, they began to warp reality to meet the mounting tension of their inner vision...