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Included in the cast are the owners of the hotel, nine adolescents and children, a clergyman, four lovers and a clutch of frustrated husbands & wives. Culture enters the lobby mainly in the form of such lines as "The strains of Stravinsky ceased ..." and "He looked up from the Times Literary Supplement . . ." Comedy creeps in (looking for its shoes) when, for instance, a doctor mentions "metatarsals" and a sweet young thing asks, "Who did you say met a tarsal?" In a line here & there appear half-suffocated indications that Margaret Kennedy could still, if she wished, write another bestseller as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stravinsky, Here I Come! | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

When a Christian does battle with Freud, it is no news. But a foray against Freud just published in the U.S. by British Clergyman Benjamin Gilbert Sanders, Christianity After Freud (Macmillan; $1.75), may raise some startled eyebrows among both psychoanalysts and Christians. For Author Sanders picks Freud's own weapons to defend Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Freudian Christianity | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Every system must take self-love into account," the clergyman commented. "But in a technical society," he said, "each man seeking his own good will not produce the common welfare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1800 Hear Luce Debate Niebuhr in Law Forum | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...first human being and then a doctor, a lawyer, or a clergyman," the administration claims. This educational theory seems to get results, for Princeton has had more Rhodes scholars than any other college (the score: Princeton 72, Harvard...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...audience of almost 100 heard the Catholic clergyman say that "the walls of the spiritual ghetto are crumbling." Father Oesterreicher, himself a convert from Judaism, said that "leading Jewish scholars" are now discussing Christ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Priest Speaks on Jews and Christ | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

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