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...World Methodist Council, sums it up as a "Reformation, Roman-style " Unlike Luther's drastic break with the medieval past, it is a reformation in which change is often so subtle that it sometimes does not seem like change at all. It is a reformation in which radical ideas blossom in traditional Latin garb, in which continuity receives as much emphasis as novelty, in which new ways are inevitably coupled with warnings against imprudent excess. It is a reformation not of acts but of attitudes whose distant goal is the ultimate reconciliation of the church with other faiths and with...
...people of Seoul did not share Park's restraint. Fully 300,000 of them lined the streets to dab at their eyes or simply gaze in respect as the flower-bedecked hearse carried Rhee on his last trip to Pear Blossom House, his old residence...
...letters of complaint pour in daily to the editorial offices of Pravda, Izvestia and other papers. If a letter is published-and many are-the writer is assured some kind of redress: an official mentioned in a newspaper complaint is required to answer it. Sometimes the private gripes blossom into a full-fledged editorial discussion of substantive issues: economics, or crime, or agriculture, or juvenile delinquency. It all adds up to impressive evidence that some of the shackles have been removed from the Soviet press...
Died. Dr. Ichiro Ohga, 82, known throughout Japan as "Dr. Lotus" for his lifelong experiments with lotus plants, who won worldwide notice in 1952 when he succeeded in making a 2,000-year-old seed blossom into a beautiful pink flower and nursed the plant back to such health that it is still alive in a Kemigawa botanical garden dedicated to him; of a stroke; in Tokyo...
Harvard's sense of community is dissolving, and yet, Harvard is booming as never before. It has more money, more buildings and more people. Each year new institutes spring up, new centers blossom. Our professors have penetrated to the darkest of the jet-set, and have spanned the globe in administrative and advisory capacities...