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Lawrence Raab, from \"Permanence,\" Summer 1999 In the early years of the 1950s there were still no tall buildings in Miraflores, a neighborhood of one-story houses-two stories at the most-and gardens with their inevitable geraniums, poincianas, laurels, bougainvilleas, and lawns and verandas along which honeysuckle or ivy climbed, with rocking chairs where neighbors waited for nightfall, gossiping or inhaling the scent of the jasmine. In some parks there were ceibo trees thorny with red and pink flowers, and the straight, clean sidewalks were lined with frangipani, jacaranda, and mulberry trees, a note of color along with the flowers in the gardens and the little yellow D'Onofrio ice-cream trucks-the drivers dressed in their uniforms of white smocks and little black caps-that drove up and down the streets day and night, announcing their presence with a Klaxon whose slow ululation had the effect on me of a primitive horn, a prehistoric reminiscence. Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman, \"The Chilean Girls,\" Summer 2007 It wasn't simply that the white stucco walls had a fortress-like thickness or that we were accommodated with pets and bicycles and a Ping-Pong table on the back veranda.

The 9/11 attacks conjure images that make for a tough transition into the next chapter of [J. Glenn Gray]'s book, in which he writes about the enduring appeals of battle. I'll focus on Robert E. Lee's words to General James Longstreet at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Lee said, \"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.\" 6 That's about a different kind of war.

I agree that God does not will there to be war, but God might very well will that we live with the consequences of having chosen war. Here [J. Glenn Gray] separated himself from the progressivism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries insofar as that view imagined inevitable progress towards perpetual peace, while, at the same time, he retained his commitment to gaining a world without war.

The Warriors is a remarkable book, and one of its most provocative chapters addresses what [J.

Thus does [J. Glenn Gray], in one of my favorite passages of the book, say \"if I ever find one who will say 'I am, I was, and will remain a National Socialist and you can like it or not,' I will clasp his hand and cry, 'At last I have found a brave and honest, if an evil, man.

April 30, 2007, aged 54. Slipped peacefully away in his sleep at his home in Gosport, Hampshire. Returning to Bangor for Burial at 11.00 a.m.