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...then. According to a 2nd century work called The Acts of Paul and Thecla, he was "a sturdy little balding, bowlegged man, with meeting eyebrows and a somewhat hooked nose; full of grace; for sometimes he appeared like a man and sometimes he had the face of an angel." Detractors in the Corinthian church called "his bodily presence . . . weak, his speech contemptible," and Paul himself acknowledges that he is "rude in speech, yet not in knowledge." Paul's letters give the best evidence of how he must have preached (the direct quotes attributed to him in Acts were, according...
SOME ANGRY ANGEL, by Richard Condon (275 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $4.50), marks the third appearance of an ironist whose iron holds a keener edge than most. After his fine, mordant first novel. The Oldest Confession, he did a few handstands to attract attention, and the result was The Manchurian Candidate (TIME, July 6). an impressively comic but chaotic novel whose message-all is vanity and venality, and even the noblest of men knows not the way to the washroom-was not always audible over the author's sousaphone accompaniment. The present book appears to contain the same admonition, though...
...what many followers of Catholic thought have long known: there is a strong trend in modern Catholicism to take a firm stand on the side of religious freedom. The document: a scholarly, footnote-stippled study prepared for the World Council of Churches' Commission on Religious Liberty by Dr. Angel F. Carillo de Albornoz of Paris, a scholar with degrees in theology, philosophy, letters and law. Dr. Carillo was formerly a Roman Catholic but is now an Episcopalian on the staff of the World Council...
Double Standard. In Frankfurt, West Germany, Movie Starlet Sabine Sinjen, 17, greeted thousands of fans at the premiere of her new comic criminal film, No Angel Is So Pure, then had to go home before the actual showing because it is a film that German law forbids juveniles to attend...
...outside angel shared Lowell's fervent faith in the scheme. "In a kind of desperation," Lowell finally endowed the society out of his own pocket, "although it took nearly all I had." (It took $1,500,000.) Last week the impressive return on Lowell's investment was totted up in a proud report by the society's chairman, History Professor Crane Brinton...