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...impossible to feel anything but respect for the honorary doctorates of Ross R. Barnett, Governor of Mississippi. Still, we feel constrained to differ with him on a small point of historical accuracy...
...love of men rather than ideas. The new Pope, says one Spanish Catholic layman who has worked with him, "is a Gothic priest not only in physical appearance but in spiritual formation. He has a subtle intelligence and a strong hand." Subtle, strong-handed Pope Paul VI will unquestionably differ from John in his stand on the great questions that face his church...
Answers to Problems. Recently published in the U.S. is a layman's lucid study of this new quest, by German Protestant Journalist Heinz Zahrnt, called The Historical Jesus (Harper & Row; $3.50). Zahrnt points out that the Marburgers differ among themselves about the scope and validity of the quest, but share certain assumptions as to how it ought to be carried out. For them, biography is not simply a record of "what happened when," but an explanation of how a person understood himself in the context of history. "Our existential experience is the condition for our interest in the historical...
...they split up their share of the Government bankroll, scientists may differ about the value of space flight, but rare is the objection to the big bills that will be run up by the construction of new particle accelerators. These monster machines promise to pay for their keep by telling how energy clumps together to form the material particles that make up the universe, by contributing more than existing accelerators can to man's knowledge of nuclear energy...
...hero (Martin La Salle) is a penniless student with Nietzschean notions about crime: "Some men are stronger and more talented than others and have the right to break the law. Their crimes revitalize society." Such thoughts impelled Raskolnikov to murder; they inspire Michel to pick pockets. The crimes differ in seriousness, but not in spiritual effect. In both cases, the crime compels the hero to experience successively sin, guilt, despair, contrition, atonement, love...