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...victories produce only a harvest of fear and distrust, will it all have been worthwhile?" "Threatening & Patronizing." Jewish leaders responded as if the Jesuits had suggested that this was a good time for a pogrom. "America performs a disservice in raising the spectre of anti-Semitism," said Rabbi Elmer Berger of the American Council for Judaism. In a joint statement, the leaders of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis reacted "with chagrin and disappointment" to America's "threatening and patronizing statement," tossed back at the Jesuits a paraphrase of their own question...
...flashback, it develops that Charlie was a famed concert pianist whose wife (Nicole Berger) made his career by sleeping with his concert manager. When Charlie is unable to forgive her, she commits suicide, and his career hits the skids. Charlie's present is no happier than his past. A couple of his brothers, both criminals, entangle him in a caper, and though Charlie escapes with his life, gunmen riddle his lovely and adoring mistress (Marie du Bois). At film's end, Charlie is back at the bistro, and the moral, if any, seems to be that shooting...
...July 25: 8 p.m. Theatre-Chamber Music Concert - Boston Arts Quartet - Weber: Five Movements, Op. 5 Berger: Quartet (1958) - Schoenberg: Quartet No.3 - (Under the auspices of the Fromm Music Foundation...
...seminaries are to uphold the old Protestant tradition, he says, they must rehabilitate the ideal of the ministerial scholar-and provide him with the right kind of education. "The traditional theological disciplines," Berger insists, "must regain their central position . . . There must be an end to the grotesque spectacle of a Protestant ministry that continues to maintain the primacy of Scripture for Christian thought and life-and is unable to read the same Scripture except through the pale mirror of translations...
...Berger admits that his concept of more theology for the seminaries is going against the stream of the time. But he insists that it does not have to be a Utopian hope. The demand for ministers exceeds the supply, and the churches have no choice but to accept the kind of clergyman that the divinity schools choose to turn out. "This means that theological seminaries, if they can assert even a modicum of independence vis-a-vis the organization, have much leeway for doing at least some of the things that their Christian reason advocates they should...