Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VOYAGE OF SILENCE. A deceptively simple story of a young Portuguese carpenter emigrating to Paris is given uncommon strength and stature by the compassionate observation of Director Christian de Chalonge...
Patchwork Life. Willis Mosby shares Braun's detachment, if not his ethnic background. An American Christian gentleman and noted action-intellectual, he has withdrawn to Mexico to write his memoirs "in the vein of Sir Harold Nicolson or Santayana or Bertrand Russell." He deals at length with his patchwork life; his fundamentalist upbringing, his Rhodes scholar days, his unorthodox interpretation of John Locke, a stint for Hearst in Spain, wartime service with the OSS, and his views on F.D.R., Comte, Proudhon, Marx and Tocqueville. But then Mosby decides that his memoir needs a touch of humor...
...flamboyant minister, a new leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, held the intense audience of 200 spellbound as his booming voice filled Lecture Hall with the history of the black race's suffering in America...
...claim to infallibility, "even her good arguments cease to be effective. Behind them outsiders suspect specious pleadings, not honest attempts to find the truth." Therefore, Simons concludes, "belief in infallibility is an obstacle to progress and the Gospel's effectiveness." It is also, more obviously, an obstacle to Christian unity. Simons argues that the demands of ecumenicism also justify the church's abandonment of the infallibility claim...
...said she had received no money for her role, but that she thought Rocchino had been paid for expenses. She denied taking an active part in contacting or hiding Schober, but said that, during the rendezvous with him, she had telephoned a West German woman with the code words "Christian wants...