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Protestants, Catholics and Jews united last week to assert the place of God's moral law in Caesar's world. In a "Declaration on Economic Justice," 122 religious men-clerics and laymen-agreed on common moral sanctions of their varied faiths. Their declaration was not calculated to please men accustomed to keeping God and Caesar well apart. Excerpts: ¶ "The material resources of life are entrusted to man by God for the benefit of all. . . . It follows, therefore, that the right to private property is limited by moral obligations and is subject to social restrictions for the common...
...this airport is the antechamber of the Third Rome, as Russian Orthodox theologians, with a diametrically opposite meaning, used to call Moscow the Golden.* Through it is entered the doctrinal capital of Communism, the fanatical modern faith which holds that man can assert the ultimate potential of his humanity only by denying God and yielding himself wholly to Reason and its instrument, Science...
Movie background music has come a long way since the days when a loud chord went with a slammed door, a descending scale with a man falling downstairs. Whether it has gone far enough to be music in its own right, few music critics are willing to assert. But last week two scores by Hollywood's No. 1 sound-track composer, Miklos Rozsa, were fast-moving items. His Spellbound Concerto, adapted from his Oscar-winning music for Spellbound, had sold 100,000 sets at $4 each; his Lost Weekend music was one of Victor's top ten "semi...
...Might to Assert Right...
Jewish terrorism today is the result and not the cause of declining world sympathy. . . . The state of world sympathy is such that might is the only way to assert right...