Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Much concerned is Philosopher Hocking by "the scandal of plurality"-the fact that religion, by its nature universal and one, is everywhere local, partisan, sectarian. He feels that missions cannot achieve world religion. "The mission," says he, "tries to make a particular religion universal. The new interest is to escape particularity and localism, finding in religions what is already universal...
...Grande do Sul went Richard Paulig, an assistant in the German Consulate in Manhattan, and Dr. Ried went north to fill Paulig's shoes. Day after he had settled himself at work, the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League rushed a note to the State Department reviewing the Ried record. Three days later a "thank you" letter came back explaining that no information had yet been received as to Ried's U. S. duties. There the matter lay until last week when the Ried cries grew louder as the New York Post's Daniel Lang tracked him down...
Nowhere near the logical saturation point are Irna's present shows. Her Guiding Light, Woman in White, Road of Life and Right to Happiness are all flourishing. Irna's favorite among her works is Guiding Light, the story of a non-sectarian minister in a melting-pot community, into which she pours most of her philosophy and night-thoughts. It is in Woman in White, though, that Irna gets in some of her most telling licks. Featuring Karen Adams, a heroic nurse, Woman in White, like many other script shows, is remarkably independent of radio's taboos...
Immoderate and humorless as Marxian sectarian journalists, as human beings the Partisan Review editors are an eager, uneven, engaging crew. Happiest when criticizing critics, capitalizing on capitalists and declaring war on "Imperialist War," they are almost as happy when they can snag a literary lion. Of these they have snagged a pride, from Apostle Trotsky himself to such international camelo-pards as Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein. Latest catch is Poet T. S. Eliot's new, beautiful, 200-line poem for the current May-June issue...
...Incorporated fortnight ago in New York was another organization, the Non-Sectarian Foundation for Refugee Children, which will work with the American Friends Service Committee by placing European refugees in U. S. homes. Among its sponsors: Eleanor Roosevelt...