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Says Toynbee: Christians must winnow the nonessential chaff (mostly theology) from the wheat of their tradition, must abandon the "chosen people" claim to the uniqueness of their Saviour and their revelation. They must learn to regard all the higher religions as revelations of God. "The spirit of the Indian religions, blowing where it listeth, may perhaps help to winnow a traditional Pharisaism out of Moslem, Christian and Jewish hearts. But the help that God gives is given by Him to those who help themselves; and the spiritual struggle in the more exclusive-minded Judaic half of the world to cure...
...that to maintain effectiveness in other important areas of thought, this newspaper must abdicate its position in the segregation controversy. We have seen the situation as being insoluble in the hands of extremists, and have sought men of good will who can sift the elements of right from the chaff of unreason on both sides of the conflict. [But] men seeking the fair solution have not, in two years, come forward. They do not exist, or they have been unwilling to face the scorn and abuse of those on the extreme fringes . . . Editorials that do not speak sedition, bigotry, white...
...Minister to Great Britain, Robert Schenck, got a little something going at Queen Victoria's estate in Somersetshire. Her Majesty happened by and took a hand. She was delighted and asked Schenck to draw up some rules. He obliged and added that "it is good practice to chaff (talk nonsense) with a view to misleading your opponents." This brazen encouragement of coffee-housing caused U.S. poker purists to demand his recall...
What has been art's course in the decade since World War II? Future historians may be able to chart it neatly. Contemporaries cannot, for most art of any age is chaff which only the winds of time winnow away. But by the same token, the living can see more of today's art, good and bad. than future historians ever will. Last week the work of close to a thousand postwar artists was on view in New York City alone. The spring downpour of big survey exhibitions offered a new and broad perspective of contemporary...
...amendment was adopted, the nation had a policy of flexibility, and President Eisenhower had harvested a bumper legislative crop. With the farm-bloc diehards thus shaken, George Aiken moved in to score a clean sweep on other provisions of the bill. In fast succession, the Senate beat away the chaff of demands for 1) increasing price supports on soybeans and feed grains (oats, rye, barley, grain sorghums), 2) imposing cattle supports at a rigid 80% of parity, and 3) pegging dairy supports at 80% instead of the 75% set by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson...