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...squeamish passage in which Shannon relates to Hannah how he once saw the natives of an unnamed country scavenge a dung heap for undigested food. In the internal logic of the play, the speech is fully justified, for Shannon is testing Hannah and her previously stated creed that "nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind...
Apart from the overtones of demi-semi-Hemingway in this creed, the play casts doubt on the joy of life that it rather self-consciously preaches ("use all five senses every day"). To treat life as a branch of esthetics is to observe one's responses to it, rather than engage spontaneously in it, to play-act rather than act, or play. When Wertenbaker and his wife Lael (Olivia de Havilland) make love, he asks for a morning-after review. "Miraculous, as always," she replies, making two people who believe...
Buckley actually approves of the John Birch Society ("I hope it thrives"), but has been more and more bothered by its founder's antics. Last April Buckley said in print that there were "grave differences" between his own conservative creed and that of retired Taffy-Puller Welch. Besides, last week's Review editorial was bound to brew another of the ideological storms on which Buckley and the Review seem to thrive...
...Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Act forbids employers to inquire into the race, religion, national origin, or creed of a prospective employee. The Fair Educational Practice provisions which parallel the act make similar requirements of educational institutions in the state. Thus high school students applying for admission to Harvard College are requested to mention nothing which would indicate their racial or religious background. And they are pointedly not asked to submit photographs of themselves. The democratic principle underlying the Massachusetts law needs no introduction to members of Phillips Brooks House, which has distinguished itself by fighting against discrimination in housing...
...Hudson's view, Second Church had strayed from the narrow and uncomfortable Calvinistic path. It did not observe Lent or Advent. The service included no processional, no responsive reading-rarely even the Apostles' Creed. Most of the members had no part in running the church. Says Hudson: "It was a class church, controlled by the money forces of a few people who held the purse strings, held the offices, masterminded...