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...great philosopher out of W. Somerset Maugham and a great actress out of Gene Tierney. Result of all the costly, unsuccessful straining is an earnest, overlong, impressively glossy, frequently dull movie. Novelist Maugham remains an accomplished old storyteller who is not at his best as a camp-meeting evangelist. Miss Tierney is still a toothily pretty young woman who displays fancy clothes with far greater assurance than she displays simple emotions...
...Evangelist of Reason. When he was 19, Wells wrote an essay called The Past and Future of the Human Race. Seldom thereafter did he tackle a less ambitious subject in a spirit less sanguine. He disliked and soon left the evangelistic Protestantism in which he was brought up; but he always remained the most passionate of Protestants, the most eloquent of evangelists...
Sympathy & Soup-Mix. She had no office, but put her desk by the main door -to keep a friendly eye on everybody who came & went. An evangelist for education, Emily would find a dejected-looking man on the street and talk him into following her back to school. For hungry students there were huge pots of soup-mix, cooked up by Emily at home, at her own expense, and brought down to school...
Kagawa was unconcerned. Said he to reporters: "I have been an evangelist from the start. The Gospel never changes. If they bar me from office it is all right; I will still march...
Like Calvin Coolidge's legendary preacher, Reinhold Niebuhr is against sin. But Dr. Niebuhr is no simple evangelist urging good works and blind faith; his battle with sin cuts thick theological ice. He has sawed away to such effect in his 53 years that he is generally known as the No. 1 theologian of U.S. Protestantism...