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...Tennessee Council of Churches and the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen. Those who came and many who did not knew their reasons well: to the troubled South, human relations mean race relations, and to many white Southern pastors, the No. 1 problem is how to preach Christianity while Jim Crow sits in the congregation...
...style that went wrong," said Carnegie when the race was over. "We did." Old Blues on the riverbank were inclined to huff: after all, Cambridge had won. And hearing the traditionalists crow in triumph, one of Rebel Carnegie's young revolutionaries mourned: "English rowing will probably remain outmoded now for another decade...
...Britain as a failure, but not a mistake. Selwyn Lloyd, Eden's Foreign Secretary, is still on the job, six months after Suez. The mood of the British press last week, as Nasser threw up new difficulties after Israel's withdrawal from his territory, was to crow at the U.S.: "I told you so." London papers, which used to save their sharpest digs for Dulles, have in recent weeks shifted their fire to Eisenhower (see cartoons). Once the most popular of U.S. leaders in British eyes, Eisenhower has been increasingly depicted as naive, credulous, lacking in decisiveness...
...Crow & Cherries. The book's hero, a kind of clerical Candide, is the Abbe Victor Mas, naive young seminarist at Versailles who is sent to Rome to study and to live in the household of His Eminence, Cardinal Belloro, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The cardinal is not far from being a Renaissance figure. He does not care much for the unceremonious style of modern cardinals like New York's Spellman ("the American Pope"). He savagely attacks Pius XII, whose order curtailing the length of cardinals' trains by one half annoys...
...know the church, Author Peyrefitte mixes painstaking research with scurrilous gossip, pokes facile fun at the hairsplitting of moral theology and at the bookkeeping of indulgences. (The church, the abbé is told, no longer sells indulgences but gives them away, and his Roman associates collect them "like a crow after cherries...