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...power to order firms or individuals not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, or national origin...
...Cardinal has something for every race, creed and collar. In one irrelevant sequence, it even has Broadway Comedy Star Robert Morse (How to Succeed, etc.) doing a song-and-dance routine with half a dozen Adora-Belles dressed up like Statues of Liberty. Preminger already knows how to succeed. "The church loves show business,"-Preminger said recently, while promoting the film among Catholic dignitaries at the Vatican. One U.S. bishop raised a wistful objection: "The picture makes clerical life a lot more exciting than it really is." Amen...
Energetic Advocate. Parkinson is an energetic advocate, and he rarely lets consistency intrude on the line of his argument. Whereas in an earlier book, The Evolution of Political Thought, he concluded that "Communism is not a creed of great importance in the history of political thought," he now finds that it "seems destined to give the renascent East its cutting edge." He never reckons with the fact that the East is not an entity but a vast breeding ground of heterogeneous societies. In his own amiable way, in fact, Parkinson often seems like a man trying to stuff a quantity...
...Catholic universities do not emphasize creed at the expense of scholarship. Some require several hours of religious study a week; others do not. Almost all accept Protestant and Jewish students, hire non-Catholic teachers. Leftist students? A black-robed Jesuit administrator at Guatemala's Rafael Landivar University shrugs his shoulders. "For all I know, they may be our best students. They keep their politics to themselves...
...Britain's finest ensembles. In 1959, he returned to New York and won a thunderous sentimental welcome; the next year he announced he was pushing off for Texas. "Barbirolli belongs to a world of music which knows no barrier of language, color or creed," wrote an enthusiastic English critic. "He is destined to wander it till the end of time...