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One Of The Many Burdens Of The Person Professing Christianity Has Always Been The Odium Likely To Be Heaped Upon Him By Fellow Christians Quick To Smell Out, Denounce And Punish Fraud, Hypocrisy And General Unworthiness Among Those Who Assert The Faith. In Ruder Days, Disputes About What Constituted A Fully Qualified Christian Often Led To Sordid Quarrels In Which The Disputants Tortured, Burned And Hanged Each Other In The Conviction That Torture, Burning And Hanging Were Christian Things To Do.

Long Words, Fat Talk They May Tell Us Something About Ourselves. Has The Passion For Fat In The Language Increased As Self-confidence Has Waned?

Voters Inclined To Loathe And Fear Elite Ivy League Schools Rarely Make Fine Distinctions Between Yale And Harvard. All They Know Is That Both Are Full Of Rich, Fancy, Stuck-up And Possibly Dangerous Intellectuals Who Never Sit Down To Supper In Their Undershirt No Matter How Hot The Weather Gets.

I Gave Up On New Poetry Myself 30 Years Ago When Most Of It Began To Read Like Coded Messages Passing Between Lonely Aliens In A Hostile World.

It Was Queen Elizabeth Who Made Me A Foreign Correspondent.