Word: christian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near capacity crowd that alternately hissed, shouted, and applauded filled Emerson D last night for what the Harvard Eisenhower Club billed as "the debate of the century." The head of the Massachusetts Communist Party and an "evangelical Baptist" who is executive director of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade debated the question, "Resolved: That Communists should be expelled from our university faculties." Speaking for the affirmative, Dr. Fred C. Schwarz, a surgeon and psychiatrist from Sydney, Australia, limited his argument to "members of the Communist Party" and contended they should be excluded from faculties both for "their relationship toward truth...
...Must Die begins innocently, even happily. It is a day of triumph for a small Greek community. Their local oppressor, the Turkish Agha, has benevolently granted his Christian subjects permission to engage in their religion; he has allowed them to stage their passion play. But he, in his infidelity, and the town, in its belief, do not realize that more than a church festival is at stake. Able to cope with the reality of Turkish conquest, they are not really able to cope with belief...
...multitude of tasks that do not have the slightest connection with religion, and unemployed in the serious concerns and exacting labors of maintaining a disciplined spiritual life among mature men and women. It is a scandal of modern Protestantism that young men called to the high venture of the Christian way . . . are graduated into churches where the magnitude of their vocation is macerated . . . by the pressure of the petty practices of so-called parish progress...
...proof of Author West's fictional skill and Christian spirit that his ending is psychologically convincing and unconventionally happy because it is holy. His implied moral: few men are chosen to be saints, but many are called to prevail over wickedness with good...
Other Men's Deaths. Author West is a Roman Catholic, but his book is intensely Christian beyond the limits of creed. Like Graham Greene and Francois Mauriac, West is concerned with sin and redemptive grace, but without their somewhat morbid preoccupation with evil. Rarely has the vocation of a priest or the problems of leading a Christian life been explored with such dramatic passion and compassion. One quality is completely absent-what Author West himself calls the "peppermint piety" of the stock religious bestseller...