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...keen eye for the drama of a small-town courtroom in the South and an unmistakable talent for reporting the impact of human passion on the spectators' dull, ordered lives. All that keeps him from writing a really first-class novel is an unfortunate tendency to borrow overmuch from the verbal mannerisms of Neighbor William Faulkner. But there is nothing wrong with Novelist Foote that a little more literary independence cannot cure...
...sees a tendency in ecumenical circles "to assume that it does not matter overmuch what people think of Christ, whether He is God redeeming the world or only a superfine moral leader, or even perhaps a neurotic with messianic illusions of grandeur who nevertheless said some right good things. The thing to do is to get everybody into 'one big united Church' . . . One is driven to the conclusion that the 'ecumenical movement' is in considerable danger of substituting the Church for Christianity...
...earn its place in the finals, the Crimson won a morning qualifying heat, again beating Penn by about the same margin of two-thirds of a length. Harvard, not extending itself overmuch, rowed a casual 37 at the finish when it came from behind to beat Penn, Navy, BU, Syracuse, and Rutgers in that order...
...fret overmuch at the "brekekekex koäx" of ecclesiastical discussion. What if the men who make religion their business do sound much like the men whose business is politics? They are both debating problems which have beset mankind for a long time. The U.N. diplomats are struggling with the problem of nationalism, which in our culture is only a few centuries old, and it may be solved in a few more centuries. The problems which beset religion are much older, and will be much longer in the solving...
Perhaps I lost my conscience and sense of moral values while serving in the Marine Corps. There we were taught that if one loved his enemies overmuch, he was likely to wake up a very dead pigeon...