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Sir: My sermon Sunday was James 1: 22, "But be doers of the Word, not hearers only," and your Essay was apropos. However, you say doers are produced by families, schools, colleges and corporations. Are none produced by churches? Has religion lost all its power and creativity? Has the church...
And what do the lines mean? What is the relation between the palm and the future? Many people think that palmistry is a matter of predestination: that the palm indicates exactly what will happen in a lifetime. It is my belief, however, that the palm, if read accurately, gives a...
Sir: You state, "If the silent center in the U.S. can find an effective voice, through the new Citizens Committee . . ." For "silent center" read "senior citizen" apropos of the ages of the founders: Dean Acheson, 74; Omar Bradley, 74; James F. Byrnes, 88; Lucius Clay, 70; James Bryant Conant, 74...
Sir: Apropos your flying-saucer Essay [Aug. 4], the implication is that most scientists insist that their laws are absolutely valid. Yet even Einstein is now being questioned, and there is uncertainty about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. As knowledge is gathered, the old "laws" are found more and more...
Sir: Apropos of "New Punctuation Mark" [July 21]: no doubt the interabang fills the need of some writers, although I can usually make do with a simple exclamation point. More needful, I think, is the pronequark. The kind of sentence that demands the pronequark arises quite frequently. It looks like...