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...seminaries are to uphold the old Protestant tradition, he says, they must rehabilitate the ideal of the ministerial scholar-and provide him with the right kind of education. "The traditional theological disciplines," Berger insists, "must regain their central position . . . There must be an end to the grotesque spectacle of a Protestant ministry that continues to maintain the primacy of Scripture for Christian thought and life-and is unable to read the same Scripture except through the pale mirror of translations...
...resigned to the fatuous, bankrupt conventions of will-she, won't-she, should-she, shouldn't-she, Mink offers a modicum of fun. The best line has nothing to do with the plot: "Some day there's going to be an uprising and the masses will regain the misery they're entitled...
...earned by Hughes Tool, and the aviation industry is betting that Hughes will yet find a way to pass off on Northeast the four idle Convair 880 jetliners still owned by the tool company. More important, Hughes obviously hopes to use Northeast as a weapon in his fight to regain control of the TWA shares (78.29; of the line's outstanding stock) that edgy creditors forced him to put into a voting trust two years ago. If he can pull hapless Northeast out of its difficulties (which will not be easy), it will be increasingly awkward for the bankers...
...will take two or three years of hard work on our part and his if this boy is to regain the use of his arm," said Dr. Shaw. "If it is completely numb, it will be only a dangling decoration, and no triumph." To ward off that grim possibility, even in advance of nerve surgery, physiotherapists are already teaching Ev Knowles to use his fast-healing left hand to work the joints of his pink but nerveless right...
...honor, the President's position has enjoyed almost universal support among his countrymen. In offering to trade a life for a life, deGaulle lowers himself to the level of the O.A.S. and tacitly admits that his former position is untenable. Once he relaxes his rigid stance, he can never regain...