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...Dubliners, plead nothing more special than the heartbreak of man's own making. A clerk breaks a leg running out on the girl he gets into trouble; his father's cast-off shoes hurt a schoolboy's heart much more than his feet; a tottering old watchman asks a Mass for the soul of a soldier he had killed as a youth. Together, such simple and tenderly told stories make a haunting picture of a Dublin not so very different, after 40 years, from the Dublin of Joyce's short stories...
...result, "the church, first, must loyally give the state everything necessary to its existence. It has to oppose anarchy and all Zealotism within its own ranks. Second, it has to fulfill the office of watchman over the state. That means: it must remain . . . critical toward every state and be ready to warn it against transgression of its legitimate limits . . . "In the course of history the church has always assumed a false attitude toward the state when it has forgotten that the present time is already fulfillment, but not yet consummation. Then we get ... erroneous solutions . . . either that the church tries...
...travelling salesman from Arlington invaded Holmes Hall, home of all Radcliffe girls remaining over the spring recess, last Wednesday morning at 4 a.m. He was apprehended by police and a watchman...
...When she developed a small sore inside her mouth, a 58-year-old housewife asked her husband, a night watchman, what she should do. He recalled reading somewhere that "X ray and radium are no good for cancer." Friends recommended a healer, and she began the salve treatment. At first the lesion was only the size of a pencil eraser; after two years it had ulcerated her whole cheek. When she complained of extreme pain, the healer said: "That's fine. The salve's working, drawing out the cancer." When the woman finally got to Duke, her entire...
...heard only one 'Boola Boola' all night," the Eliot House night watchman commented yesterday. "This was the finest Yale game crowd I've ever seen," Winthrop's assistant superintendent added...