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...promising new effort, combines religion with social studies rather than with literature, and uses historic documents and sermons to illustrate religious influence on various periods. For states that have not yet created a program, though, there may be a simpler solution: an ambitious new book called The Bible Reader: An Interfaith Interpretation (Bruce; $3.95 paperback...
...with guilt as a result" of Adam's sin, and quote also the second of the Mormon Articles of Faith, which states that "men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgressions." Unusual interpretations by smaller sects are noted elsewhere in the Reader. General William Booth's idea of a strongly centralized authority for the Salvation Army, the book points out, derived from a passage in the Book of Exodus...
...correspondents, researchers, and a writer (or on occasion, even an editor or two). But TIME is very much the work of individuals-with styles, ideas and idiosyncracies of their own. Their identities, though, are more and more frequently mentioned in our pages. Thus, we are not reluctant to inform Reader Katz that the man he admires is Alwyn Lee, who has been rendering judgments on the literary world for TIME since...
Just when the reader, thinking he has had enough, starts to get up and walk out of this nightclub of the mind, Jacobs takes a breath and launches into another of his characteristic openings: "My name is Oliver August. I am friendly, a Moose. I try to believe in disarmament. I cook for a hobby. Every seven years my cells change. But each new cell sings of health and wellbeing. No matter how often I am replaced, I remain formidable. . . . Look into my eyes: rain puddles rich with life. My story should be told." Hypnotized by those glittering rain puddles...
...normal times, this intuitive taciturnity serves the reader well. He doesn't have to read the same boring details every morning. But in abnormal times it may not be such a service; and in the grossly abnormal times of last spring, it helped produce a virtual news blackout of one of, the more significant aspects of the Harvard crisis...