Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after a lapse of two centuries, the ritual of individual confession was again an official practice among German Lutherans. In Flensburg a fortnight ago, the General Synod of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church* restored the same private confession which Martin Luther, in his day, had emphasized as an...
Through the troubled years of World Wars I and II, many German Lutherans looked wistfully back at Luther's position on confession. Church leaders winced at the "ersatz attempts" by their parishioners to cure their souls through the medical therapy of psychiatrists. Said Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover: "This...
From then on, El Campesino's chief idea was to escape. In 1944, he managed to get as far as Teheran, and thought he was safe. An informer tipped off the Russians, and one day the NKVD closed in, kidnaped him and hauled him back across the frontier. For...
Hollywood and Broadway have long suspected that brilliant Stage & Screen Director Elia Kazan (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) had once been a Communist, along with some other members of New York's now defunct pink-arty Group Theater. The professional martyr-makers were, as always, ready...
My Son, John (Paramount) casts Robert Walker as a U.S. Government employee who is also a Communist Party member. Robert associates with "highbrow professors" and has rather vague political arguments with his American Legionnaire father (Dean Jagger), but his mother (Helen Hayes) adores and defends him. When she accidentally discovers...