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...assailants of our "irrelevant" doctrine and our "decaying" church. "Why should anybody go to church," asks Editor Kingsley Martin [TIME, July 19], "and listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody be such a fool as to consult a physician in a time of epidemic...
...good Catholic would attribute such statistics to the grace of God. But to make its members serve as instruments of God's grace, the Roman Catholic Church enjoins strict attention to hard work and know-how. A testament to both is a recently published compendium of the most successful proselyting techniques-Winning Converts (P. J. Kenedy & Sons; $3). Edited by the Rev. John A. O'Brien of the University of Notre Dame, it may give many a pointer to evangelizing Protestants as well as to Catholic priests and laymen...
...revealing peek at the whirring gears of the bureaucratic mind, the Information Bulletin of the U.S. Military Government in Germany (OMGUS) solemnly totted up the abbreviations in common usage among occupation forces in Germany. From AACS (Airways and Air Communication Service) to ZVL (German central movements directorate), the compendium plodded through 581 separate items. Samples: BE (British Element), CROWCASS (Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects), GMZFO (Military Government of the French Zone of Occupation), PUP (Public Utilities Panel), WAGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Scouts...
...general run of people still believe that the old family doctor has his points. And last week the No. 1 U.S. medical publishing house placed a sizable bet on the general practitioner's future: a five-volume, monumental compendium of modern medical knowledge (An Integrated Practice of Medicine, W. B. Saunders Co., $50). Its aim: to make the family doctor an up-to-date, "compleat practitioner...
Anthologist Bretall's judicious excerpting from 17 of Kierkegaard's major & minor works makes a 481-page compendium that is also almost a biography. For Sören Kierkegaard lived most intensely and dramatically in his thoughts...