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¶ Enrico C. S. Molnar of Compton, Calif., Episcopal priest, onetime Methodist : "To my mind our Communion most fully expresses the marks of being the 'extension of the Incarnation . . .' None of [my books] need be relegated to a hidden shelf, just because I am an Episcopalian. There is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Travelers at Home | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

"He is a native of the James family and has no other country," said brother William of Henry. As spiritual geography this was true enough, but in point of physical fact, Henry's boyhood was spent in a roomy house on Manhattan's 14th Street. Though he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memories of a Mandarin | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

For Coach Rusty Callow, the main problem of a comeback for his aging world-beaters was a bit more esoteric: how to keep ever-present wives from heckling their husbands. But Rusty's fears were groundless. The women have proved willing to let their men eat at training table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Years from Olympus | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Even the plot, which was written by Dori Schmidt, appears much less inane that those which inflict many musicals. The story deals with the antagonism between an esoteric poet, and a poet-hating female stock broker, and the somewhat hestitant romance between their children.

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Drumbeats and Song | 3/2/1956 | See Source »

The church must "reassume its ancient and proper responsibility and productivity with reference to all the arts," an undertaking that "it could well begin by purging its own arts [of the] insipid or precious or esoteric or sentimental."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Art Needs the Church | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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