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...Divinity School since 1959; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Miller believed that "religion which is interested only in itself is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous, and throughout a distinguished career worked unceasingly to bring Christianity in tune with the secular realities of the times. A fervent ecumenicist, he called for an end to divisive tensions between Christians and Jews, between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Christianity, he argued, could only survive by bringing "new and deeper satisfaction to the human spirit...
...sits intensely motionless. His hands, clasped in the center of the table beside the water he never stops to drink, move only rarely to say something of extreme importance. For 45 minutes there is nothing but Borges' locating the words to articulate what Professor Raimundo Lida called "his fervent and clairvoyant meditations...
...urban Southern Baptist and Methodist congregations there is a growing spiritual sophistication about interpreting the Bible. But in country villages, among the fervent fundamentalist churchlets, the literal truth of God's word is an unalterable axiom. "Even the mention of Christ walking on water or Jonah being swallowed by a whale can quickly develop into an insoluble controversy if it is suggested that such miracles are symbolic," writes Caldwell. In one such back-country church recently, he says, the congregation became concerned when the minister neglected to specifically reaffirm from the pulpit that Christ was born of a virgin...
...first game, played under Harvard rules, the Canadian visitors seemed totally confused. A contemporary newspaper account described the McGill players as "standing in the field merely as spectators of their opponents' excellent kicking." Scoring at will, Harvard fulfilled--for the first time--its 10,000 men's most fervent desire...
...sympathy from labor by refusing to break a strike, but to get his own party's nomination, he needs support from the Republican right-the very segment that would be most offended by his coddling of the sanitationmen's union. Richard Nixon, campaigning in New Hampshire, drew fervent crowd response by siding with Lindsay. "Breaking the law of the state," Nixon declared, "cannot and must not be rewarded." Ronald Reagan observed that Rockefeller was "treading on thin ice." Even George Romney, the beneficiary of Rockefeller's political largess, allowed that "where there is a breakdown of public...