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...first theological notice. Schweitzer's thesis: Jesus shared the Jewish Messianic expectation that the world was soon coming to an end, to be followed by a supernatural Kingdom of God. Since it did not, Schweitzer reasoned, Jesus must have been capable of error. Schweitzer advised liberal Protestantism to discard the infallible "Christ personality of dogma"-without discarding the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount, which he hailed as the charter of a great ethical faith...
...Progressives met in a frame hall at Portage, Wis., to disband the party, return to the G.O.P. Young Bob was facing another election-and he could win only as a Republican. There were still men who wanted to go defiantly on. Said Scandinavian-born Farmer Ole Lund: "When we discard a piece of machinery on the farm we think twice before we hitch on to it again." But there was no choice. The Democrats could offer no hope of victory. Quietly the delegates voted to join up with the Republicans, and went home...
Hurry, Hurry. Mielziner's greatest headache-and heartache-is the frantic haste with which he must fill his jobs. The scene designer has perhaps three days to work out his design, perhaps three weeks to make hundreds of sketches, find dozens of props, discard, replace, assemble, "hang" and light. "I like to brood," sighs Mielziner, "and there's no time for brooding"-only 100-hour work weeks in which "one minute you're creating magic, the next minute you find yourself serving as a practical plumber or making a four-ton set disappear...
Loose Ends. Solution of the central issue-the make-up of a new Polish government-left some loose ends dangling. Loosest was Tomasz Arciszewski's London Government, now definitely in the discard. Poland's heroic, well-trained army in exile was still under the London Government's command, and still unreconciled to the changes at home...
When the division moved to Luzon, there were new terms: for every live Jap, one case of beer and a three-day pass to Manila. Sergeant Brown took a prisoner in a cave by persuading him to discard his hara-kiri grenade and come out. Then Brown picked up his beer and went to Manila...