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...CinemaScope adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' best-selling novel is alternately impressive, faltering, and finally disappointing. Despite the magnitude of such early scenes as the Roman slave market, the dusty plains of Galilee, and the splendor of imperial Rome, this wide sweep of spectacle lacks meaning without a devout testament of faith...
Nock is, for example, a devout member of the Church of England and he startles his History of Religion 101b course each spring by edging to the door at the end of the last class before Easter. Just the the bell rings, he explodes, "I want you to know that I hold each and every one of you personally responsible for the death of our Saviour, Jesus Christ." Waving his umbrella a few times, Nock disappears out the door...
...marked the first in a long line of Unitarian presidents. Samuel Eliot Morison writes, "Orthodox Calvinists, of the true puritan tradition now became open enemies to Harvard.... Unitarianism of the Boston stamp was not a fixed dogma but a point of view that was receptive, searching, inquiring, and yet devout; a halfway house to the rationalistic and scientific point of view...
...building and repairing schoolhouses, opened at least 50 new schools, gave substantial raises to teachers. He established the school year, which had averaged two or three months, at a legal minimum of six months, opened the nation's first state normal school for the training of teachers. A devout Unitarian, he championed nonsectarianism in the schools on grounds that the way a man worships God is his own business...
...beats, filed only interpretive stories under his ironclad rule: "Relate yesterday's facts to today's events to produce tomorrow's meaning." Says Drummond: "A lot of papers would say we didn't write anything but Sunday features." Drummond, like most Monitor staffers a devout Christian Scientist, will write four columns a week which the Trib will syndicate, will still do an occasional piece for the Monitor...