Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, "different as modern Communism is ... it need not be inconsistent with Christian faith and life. There are many Christians who are convinced that there is much more in common between Christianity and Communism than between Christianity and Capitalism. In Russia there are millions of Orthodox who are loyal citizens of a Communist state. In Poland there are convinced Communists who regularly attend Mass. In Czechoslovakia among the members of some of the Reformed Churches there are to be found convinced Communists . . . The Church therefore should avoid an indiscriminate condemnation of Communism, which would compel many, especially of the younger...
This, after all their good intentions, destroyed their faith in newspapers. It forced them for a while to put out their own paper (the New York Review) to get publicity, and made them secretive ever after. In 1905, Sam, the acknowledged leader of the family, died when the train he was riding ran into a carload of dynamite; Lee and Jake have never traveled together since. But Jake and Lee went on to fight with drama critics, bar them from theaters, and are said to have issued a manifesto that they wanted to be called "the Messrs. Shubert," not "Jake...
Professor Joughin winds up his contribution with two moving chapters devoted to the personalities of Sacco and Vanzetti, and a final chapter entitled "The Legacy of Literature: Faith," which deals with the first historical judgments on the case...
...this stripe have yet to articulate in compact, coherent fashion a conservative declaration of faith, and probably because of popular misconceptions concern- ing the meaning of conservatism, this is a job to be left to the professors. But their speeches and their votes indicate that they understand true conservatism and are prepared to work for it in practical ways--voting for extensions of social security, Federal aid to education, social development of natural resources. Instead of opposing all social legislation out of hand they are, most of them, always thinking up something new, using a new mechanism (i.e. the federal...
...parade movie ideas.- Joan of Arc cost $4,600,000 to film, another $1,000,000 for Technicolor; it may have to gross as much as $9,000,000. A producer who bets that much on a script without sex is taking an awful chance. But Wanger had faith in an idea; and his faith was shared by his partners (Sierra Pictures is owned 40% by Ingrid Bergman, 30% each by Wanger and Director Victor Fleming). Says Wanger: "Right now people are confused. They need orientation. They want something more reassuring than material things...