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...durable canon of American folklore is that Broadway tickets are all but impossible to come by, that playgoers have to write for tickets months in advance, know influential people or pay scalpers' prices...
...CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The council is expected to revise the already lax rules that govern fasts and Friday abstinence from meat. The canon laws that govern the antiquated Index of Forbidden Books will be brought up to date; some bishops have asked that the Index be abolished. The council may recommend that greater attention be paid to science and modern teaching methods in seminaries. Canon law relating to impediments to marriage will probably be reformed-although the church is likely to make a strong reaffirmation of its stand against artificial birth control. Presumably, the council will take a stand against sins...
...that he will attain stature if (as short boys are advised in Dixie) he loads enough manure in his shoes. In his most famous plays he has hallucinated a vast but specious pageant of depravity in which fantasies of incest, cannibalism, murder, rape, sodomy and drug addiction constitute the canon of reality. Yet Broadway's bad boy has his sweet-mouthed moments, and Summer and Smoke (1948) is one of them: one of the few plays Williams obviously wrote primarily to please himself, one of the few in which artistic conscience was his only guide. It has many faults...
Absent Eminences. Its immediate purpose was to prepare an agenda for another meeting, which would in turn prepare an agenda for a full-dress synod-the first in more than ten centuries. At this synod, the patriarchs themselves will make canon law on such matters as litur gical revisions, calendar reform, theological minutiae, and relations between the churches. Thus the patriarchs themselves stayed away from Rhodes; the conference was presided over by venerable Chrysostom, 81, Metropolitan of Neapolis, Thasos and Philippi, and was actually run by an Athenagoras protégé-slim, black-bearded and also named Chrysostom...
Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament mustered 1,000 marchers to the Soviet embassy in London, but only 200 turned up to picket the U.S. embassy after the U.S. announced it would resume tests. C.N.D. Chairman Canon Collins insisted halfheartedly: "At present, it is Mr. Khrushchev who is shouting threats loudest, but we have to remember that both sides are to blame." Bertrand Russell's Committee of 100 was more inflexible, handed out blue leaflets declaring, "America, we denounce you. The decision by the American Government to resume nuclear tests is criminal. It in no way is justified...