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BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. The life and times of Cassius Clay in a sharp-eyed biography that unerringly-and engagingly-separates fact from bigmouth chaff...
...always in a session's last days, there was a deluge of what Les Arends calls "the chaff and chicken feed." Last week the Congress had to deal with bills that covered such relatively trivial matters as the burgeoning birth rate of jellyfish, tariffs on imported bagpipes, a $450,000 appropriation to improve sanitation facilities for Wisconsin's Menominee Indians, a measure to conserve fur seals and protect sea otters...
...believes that the time has come for a new Halakah code that would be "a secular legal creation based on principles of Jewish law with a clear dissociation from all the archaic layers that were heaped on Jewish law. The task will be to select the wheat from the chaff, to cut away the dried branches from the tree, which is still full of life...
...disaster which happened last year and this year, there is some unrest in thought among a part of our comrades. The soldier Chang Lichen said: "At present, what the peasants eat in the villages is even worse than what dogs ate in the past. At that time dogs ate chaff and grain." Commune members ask: "Is Chairman Mao going to allow us to starve to death?" The soldier Liu Ho-shan said: "Our country has no definite plans at all. Why are we unable to buy things...
There comes a season when a church man must take inventory of his life and thought, keeping what still seems valid to him and casting the chaff to the wind. For Reinhold Niebuhr, 73, the inventory spans half a century of ministry, including 32 years as a professor of Christian ethics at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary and authorship of 20 volumes on theology and political philosophy. In a thin book called Man's Nature and His Communities (Scribner; $3.95), Niebuhr makes his summing-up. The volume is partly a confession of past errors, partly an ex planation...