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...after his death, silent, shuffling throngs lined the sidewalks outside the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, walked in, passed slowly by his open, candle-flanked coffin. When the cathedral doors were finally closed at 11 o'clock at night, 45,000 people of every race, creed and walk of life had paid a final salute. The next day, 10,000 people jammed the cathedral to attend his funeral. Thousands more stood hatless under overcast skies as his funeral cortege moved with slow music to Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx...
...wrote Saint Paul, to whom God's grace was one of the cornerstones of his religion. In his epistles he referred to charis (grace) 100 times. What is grace? Neither the Apostles' nor the Nicene Creed defines it, and the nature of grace has been the subject of theological controversy since the Church was young. Those who want to hear more about it will welcome a little book, published last week, by the Church of England's Rev. Oscar Hardman-The Christian Doctrine of Grace (Macmillan...
...Pleasant Smoke. A sacred creed of most doctors-that smoking is bad for diseased hearts-was disputed by Dr. Robert L. Levy and a group of colleagues at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Levy's group found that patients with various heart diseases who smoked two cigarets in succession showed no harmful effects. Smoking raised their blood pressure and heart rate, but no more than their usual daily emotional experiences...
...Kracauer looks at German films for the answer to a hard historical question: Why did the Germans so readily accept Hitler? "Their strange preparedness for the Nazi creed," Dr. Kracauer has concluded, "must have originated in psychological dispositions stronger than any ideological scruples. The films of the pre-Hitler period shed no small light on the psychological situation...
Vive is Ithortel became my creed...