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...judge, an Episcopalian and a racist, waited for us to finish a nervous introduction. We had encountered him only too often in his capacity as head usher, and we knew our man. Now that we sat in his elegantly appointed office in the Dalias County Courthouse, we were terrified. We knew what this man could do, and what we had not seen ourselves we had heard from our friends among the high school kids. We concluded with something more or less coherent about the situation in St. Paul...
...denominations. The people's hearts, once joined in Christian love, might battle successfully the sophistries of European religion (based ominously on both intellect and tyranny); the American churches, once laced with enough committees and missions, might achieve unity even out of extreme diversity; and a united America, presumably, would usher the rest of the world into the millennium. "The event of the century", Miller ironically notes, the revival of 1857-58, "lifted the populace to its most grandiose conception of unity just before slavery sundered the country...
Since the Confraternity Bible (TIME, May 28) is the official version for the Catholic Church in the U.S., the new RSV will only be used for private study and for interfaith discussion. Nonetheless, Cardinal Meyer wrote, it "should help usher in a happier age when Christian men will no longer use the Word of God as a weapon, but rather, will find God speaking to them within the covers of a single book...
...clashing red clothes, Grooms is as gently ingenuous as his art. After high school in Nashville (where he was voted "Most Witty"), he successively studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the New School, and with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown. Fascinated with things theatrical, he also became head usher at the old Roxy in New York. "Part of art is showmanship," he says. He directed his own "happenings" and acted in them in clown's whiteface and ice-cream pants. Action painting was a religious faith to him for a while; once, before an audience, he performed...
Three Fairs in One. Smith confesses to have been stage-struck ever since he saw Carmen at age ten in Buffalo, but he took a roundabout route to Broadway. He studied architecture at Penn State, did a stint as a Roxy usher ("The stage design was hideous"), tried selling mackinaws in Gimbels' basement. He was also a member of the ménage in the Brooklyn Heights town house shared by W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers and Richard Wright. Smith was the dishwasher and furnace man. He also thought he was a painter. His first show...