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...Osborne canon, this play ranks as 'prentice work. Its virtues are mostly those that Look Back in Anger has to a greater degree. But because of them, it is improbable that any play of Osborne's will ever be lacking in interest...
...text of Canon Collins' sermon was "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me," but the throng in London's St. Paul's Cathedral had come to hear another voice. Too big for his brown suit, Baritone Paul Robeson began with pix Crossing Over Jordan, sent a series of wild melodies booming through the cathedral in the first recital of secular songs in the history of St. Paul's. Afterward, many of the congregation of 4,000 pressed around the American Negro...
Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 67, pro-Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office (the church's guardian of dogma), is a stiff-backed expert in canon law and one of the Vatican's more reactionary figures. He is handicapped by near-blindness...
Devil exists than that he does not. If he does, it explains a great many almost insoluble problems." Said Canon Arthur Shepherd of Worcester: "The first tactic of the Devil is to persuade Christians that he does not exist, next to persuade them that God does not exist...
Since the church officially believes in angels, many reasoned, then why not devils? Said Canon Evan Burrough of Oxford: "I have a profound belief in angels and therefore in demons or evil spirits. I believe that the majority of patients in our mental hospitals are really possessed by demons rather than suffering diseases of the mind...