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There was no secret, at least, about why she chose the church: she much admires Marble Collegiate's pastor, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of the bestselling The Power of Positive Thinking (who was bedded down late last week with a case of flu complicated by hiccups). Her family has often attended his church. Julie shares a copy of Peak's book with a Smith classmate and brides maid, Anne Davis, who says: "Dr. Peale has helped us through all the rough spots."* Sample Peale advice to newly weds: "Couples who pray together grow together-and stick together...
London's bobbies may or may not recognize themselves in an article by Author Mary McCarthy in the current issue of the New York Review of Books. Recounting London's Oct. 27 antiwar demonstration, Miss McCarthy writes that the bobbies prepared for the "Demo" by "sleeping in at the police station with a barrel of beer. It worried me that with all that beer the police might have hangovers the next day, which would make them irritable." But no. As it turned out, the "more inactive" police "were amused by the whole scene, especially since they were under...
Died. Thomas Merton, 53, Trappist monk and author eloquently concerned with man's spiritual and secular fulfillment (see RELIGION...
...just such an idolatry that Barth saw in Nazism, which sought to impose Hitler's ideology on the Protestant churches of Germany. As a leader of the so-called "Confessing Church," Barth, then a professor at the University of Bonn, was the principal author of the Barmen Declaration, which opposed the Nazi infiltration of Christianity as a heathen profanation of God's message. Expelled from Germany in 1935, Barth continued his war of words against Hitlerism from the University of Basel. Later he volunteered for the Swiss home defense force and served as a border guard during World...
...viewer. Author John Fowles, adapting his open-end puzzle of a book, cuts away much of its elegance; but he retains the oscillation between illusion and reality and maintains the mystery to the final frame. Director Guy Green wastes footage on tepid erotic interludes, and some of his Grecian tableaux smack of spring pageants at Vassar. Still, he has a strong sense of place, and he uses the azure skies and limpid Mediterranean to give the story the cast of eternity and overtones of legend-in-the-making. In the final hallucinatory segment, he makes the screen a place...