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...bulk of the contents consists of a transcript of a four-way discussion that took place in Atlanta last year. Two of the participants were black, Lawrence C. Howard and Vincent Harding; and two were white, Myron B. Bloy, Jr., and an education reporter whose identity is withheld owing to his publisher's policy...
...Gospel as Critique. There are plenty of clergymen who stoutly defend the council's social-action stand. Episcopal Bishop Francis Bloy of Los Angeles says: "A careful study of the teachings of our blessed Lord makes it quite clear, I believe, that he expects his followers to be totally involved in the total life of the world." In December, the Lutheran Church of America sent its 7,000 ministers a pamphlet explaining the council's goals...
...MEANEST SQUIRREL I EVER MET, by Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham (Scribners ; $3), is a shy warning that there are mean squirrels in the forest too. Hero Squirrel has all his nuts stolen by M. O. (for Mean Old) Squirrel, who tries to sell them at the Squirrel Cafe, but is politely scolded, reforms and, in the end, teaches the little squirrels how to play ice hockey with a hazel...
...women's guild. They were about equally divided between men and women, and there was a large number of couples. The group included a Ph.D. and a brain surgeon." But conservative Episcopalians were shocked. In April the vestry asked Pastor Bennett for his resignation, and Bishop Francis Eric Bloy of Los Angeles sent St. Mark's a new priest and a pastoral letter banning any more speaking in tongues under church auspices...
...experimenting with a vengeance, trapping lumpish whores, leering judges and miserable clowns in slashes and fat smears of hot dark paint. Outrage seemed his inspiration and Daumier his master. He sold practically nothing until he was past 40; even his friends found him unbearably perverse. Writer Léon Bloy, who had converted Rouault to Catholicism, put it bluntly: "You have a hideousness in your head...