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...British press calls him "Sex King Cole." The Archbishop of Canterbury once attacked his teen-age sex-education film as being antiChristian. A female M.P. has said she would like to shoot him. Undaunted, British Sexologist Martin Cole, 41, has continued his assault on British sex mores with renewed vigor. He recently expanded his Institute of Sex Education and Research in Birmingham and, this summer, rocked the nation with the news that the No. 1 teacher at the school for sex was his 25-year-old third wife Barbara...
...Willa Gather a "minor writer" [Aug. 13]? Unequivocally this places the reviewer, Martha Duffy, in the category of "lost lady": she has befuddled her thinking with today's hollow tomes. Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop has been one of America's most enduring classics...
Today, like Ellen Glasgow and Sherwood Anderson, Cather has her own persistent following. In addition, students are still required to read the chaste historical novels Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock in high school English classes. Many sound things can be learned from Cather. Her writing was almost always serene and poised, and she had the ability-which perhaps cannot be taught-of making her prose move as fast as the action she was describing...
Through the centuries, the Orthodox Church of Greece has learned to live with many kinds of political power. So when the monarchy was abolished in June, Archbishop leronymos of Athens, for 18 years a chaplain at the royal palace, dutifully sent his bishops an order to eliminate prayers for the royal family from all church services. Such outward meekness has masked considerable turmoil of another kinda struggle over power and reform within the bishops' own ranks...
...remedy all this, the colonels ousted Chrysostomos, Primate of Greece, by applying a retirement age of 80 to the Archbishop (Chrysostomos was 87). In his place as Archbishop of Athens they installed Palace Chaplain Ieronymos Kotsonis, a gray-bearded stripling then 61. A professor of canon law and author of more than 90 published works, Ieronymos started out with all the zeal of a theologian newly armed with power. He ordered special drives to aid the poor and sick, revamped the church welfare system, rented hundreds of "homes of tranquillity" for the aged. He raised clerical salaries substantially. He drafted...