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Borrowed Blend. Honest to God is a blend of ideas borrowed from some of the century's most provocative Protestant theologians. Like German Biblical Critic Rudolf Bultmann, Robinson regards the virgin birth and the heaven-above-hell-below framework of Scripture as religious myths; he argues that the essential Gospel message must be "demythologized" by liberating it from antiquated supernatural language. Rejecting the Biblical image of a transcendent God in the sky, Robinson suggests that Christians think of God the way Existentialist Theologian Paul Tillich does: as the "ground of all being...
...action may take place in a kind of cage; in another, the forms bounce back and forth against a wall and a roof and seem never to come to rest. These sculptures do not rise up from the ground; the forms, though loosely defined by a framework, are made to twist and pierce, coil and writhe in almost complete freedom. Ferber has even done a sculpture in which the framework is a whole room-an "environmental work" that envelops the viewer. It is a daring proposal of marriage between sculpture and architecture, though there are probably not many people...
This central state would be responsible for 1) defense and foreign policy, 2) a socialist economic framework, and 3) unified educational and cultural programs. But within the union, each state would have its own elected popular authority and its own parliament. Not represented in the Cairo talks was primitive Yemen, whose boss, Abdullah Sallal, is propped up by 20,000 Egyptian soldiers, but Sallal cabled Cairo announcing his total adherence to whatever is decided. But at week's end, the reported "close agreement" had apparently run into a snag. The three-power talks unexpectedly broke up and, according...
Died. William Henry Beveridge, 84, first and last (he left no heir) Baron Beveridge of Tuggal, who in 1942 published his "Social Insurance and Allied Services" report, which called for unemployment, health, marriage, maternity, widowhood, old age and death benefits for every British citizen, and became the framework for Britain's present-day "womb to tomb" coverage; in London...
...week was not so much that he denounced Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg, but that they both will most likely continue to endure and flourish. This is because they are political figures who made political mistakes and politics can be easily handled by the regime. Both Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg accept the framework of Societ society, and by accepting this framework they are assured personal security--and very limited influence...