`` Amen '', said the Reverend Doran, grabbing his rifle propped up against a tombstone, `` and now my brethren, it would seem that our presence is required elsewhere ''.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.

One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now ''.

America is now joining Europe in this `` mature '' phase of development.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

Who will say that our country is even now a homogeneous community??

The supreme object of their lives is now fulfilled, says the wife, her husband has achieved immortality.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.

She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

Of the three volumes, Blenheim is easily the best.

Next best to destroying an army is to deprive it of its freedom of action.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

Considering what is being done compared to what needs to be done, it behooves the hospital management to do some mighty careful planning toward making the best possible use of the increase granted.

Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional action requiring the Federal Communications Commission to ban such advertising through its licensing power.