The National Youth Programme with its multifarious aspects is designed to preserve unimpaired the rortiness of youth so as to be able to turn it to advantage later in life.

It is such a tiny little place that at first I thought I had gone wrong, and was in an antechamber. Plain papered walls, ascetic chairs, a moldy piano, and a couple of usherettes seemed extremely bare.

He'd begin with a premise and wrap it up at the end, full circle, the moral of the story hanging on the last word of the last line.

There is the slow international fissioning of the Anglican communion, where conservative Africans and Asians have been trying for years to throw out the more liberal churches of North America, with the Church of England caught uneasily between factions. It's difficult to see any compromise there except the peace of exhaustion.