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...society they dominate as a moral chaos, a twittering world in which bored women leave their husbands for men they do not even like, mothers regret the death of children only because mourning limits social life, and convicts given tools to stimulate their creativity employ them to decapitate the chaplain...
...many of them regard the F.D.P. as too radical, and only two of its candidates are given any chance of election. The strongest challengers are Lawrence Guyot, 26, F.D.P. Mississippi chairman, who filed as an opponent against Congressman William Colmer, 76, and the Rev. Edwin King, 30, a white chaplain at predominantly Negro Tougaloo College, who is taking on Representative John Bell Williams...
...bitch about. He was assigned to extra duty peeling potatoes and scrubbing the grease trap in the mess hall. When he warned his company commander that unless the persecution stopped he would inform the press, he was charged with "wrongful communication of a threat" and "extortion." Despite the chaplain's testimony that he was only guilty of immaturity, singular lack of judgment and stubbornness, a general court-martial sentenced him to 18 months in the stockade and a bad-conduct discharge. The sentence was eventually cut in half, and Schmidt was given a "general discharge," which ranks somewhere below...
...from Bonhoeffer, whose prison-cell attempt to work out a "nonreligious interpretation of Biblical concepts" focused on Jesus as "the man for others." By talking almost exclusively about Christ, the argument goes, the church would be preaching a spiritual hero whom even non-believers can admire. Yale's Protestant Chaplain William Sloane Coffin reports that "a girl said to me the other day, 'I don't know whether I'll ever believe in God, but Jesus is my kind...