Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitution to be written next fall will make a point of separating church and state. Ben-Gurion and other leaders rarely turn up at synagogues. Jews are not supposed to travel in vehicles on the Sabbath but they do today in Israel. Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, a brisk, urbane statesman, did not even wait for a reporter to ask him about it. Said Shertok: "And if you're going to ask whether the trains and buses are going to run on the Sabbath, I can tell you right now-they...
Science, unconcerned with morals, had posed a practical question: What about test tube conceptions? The Church of England had tried to find a practical answer...
...small boat, later parachuted back carrying OSS messages to the Dutch underground. After a year at Yale and the cross-country trip, he had been impressed by "the lack of class distinction, the materialistic thinking of most Americans, their absence of reserve, and the general lack of interest in church." One English girl who attended prep school at Bryn Mawr, Pa. thought that "the amount of food Americans waste is disgusting. The amount of clothes American girls have is tremendous-closets and drawers filled to overflowing." Said another English girl: "The overwhelming friendliness is the most striking thing about America...
...argument was over Author Greene's intention-and accomplishment. Greene is a Roman Catholic convert, with a convert's intensity: he recently voiced the hope that the Church may be driven underground, to find there a revival of spiritual force. Was his new book expounding a heresy or defending the faith? Had he made his "hero" a damned sinner or a shining saint-or merely a nice guy who didn't know how to get along with women? And what, exactly, did he mean by "the heart of the matter...
...because, in a world of utter corruption, Policeman Scobie seems utterly incorruptible. What they do not know-what Scobie himself does not know at first-is that in order to feed his voracious sense of pity, Scobie is ready, if necessary, to break the most cherished laws of both Church & State...