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...many men emerge from the ordeal spiritually dried up. A queer kind of virtue indeed is under test here. The desire for finding out what had not been known, the imaginative urge to reinterpret--these the tired and weary student has gradually lost. He has been wrung dry, and, knowingly or not, he often finishes his thesis with the firm resolve to have no more to do with "scholarship." The drive--almost the poetic drive--which first excited him and sent him on from college to graduate school...
Only so much can be wrung out of executive departments. Instead, as the President said at his press conference, Congress has to cut out some of the programs that it has passed into law. As an example, Ike pointed to water-pollution control and vocational-training programs; they should, he said, be handed over to state and local governments. Possibly a time of high national prosperity is the right time to start closing out many of the federal subsidies to farmers, veterans, states, cities. Somewhere along the budgetary line, something will have to give-and, as the satellite news made...
...pilot chose to go by the book, ditched the aircraft and immersed Michener in Michener's favorite ocean. Rescued after 90 minutes on a life raft, uninjured Passenger Michener mourned the loss of 1½ year's worth of notes and manuscripts. Half an hour later, wrung out and in borrowed togs, Michener, again the 13th man aboard, was winging north on another C-47. On reaching Japan he allowed: "I sure came the hard...
...Driven by what he called an "irresistible desire for a representation of the deepest spirituality, religion and fervor,'' Nolde turned to the Gospels, in his Christ Among the Children (see color page) created a new and powerful religious art that not only turns its back on the wrung-out humanism of the Renaissance but achieves in its glowing children and astonished disciples a thick religious fervor the equal of Rouault...
Bowen began a study of Australia's weather almost cloud by cloud. He dispensed his silver iodide from generators on airplane's wingtips, learned by repeated experiment what kinds of clouds could be wrung out. Then, backed by the Australian government, he started a long series of carefully controlled experiments in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales...