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...German-born Paul Tillich, 67, ordained minister in the Evangelical and Reformed Church, former professor of philosophical theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, and foremost exponent of a systematic Protestant theology which can, "without losing its Christian foundations, incorporate strictly scientific methods, a critical philosophy, a realistic under standing of men and society, and powerful ethical principles and motives...
...foremost problem is that of financing the program, Dupuy said. The Army fears the new program would be financially prohibitive. Actually, Dupuy continued, no figures are available on the plan, and as far as the Army or Harvard knows, it might even cost the Army less than it spends on ROTC...
Mendès-France admitted that he and his Cabinet had suffered "tortures" over EDC. "And yet," he said, "each of us, and first and foremost the one who heads your government, must face the truth. The truth-and our allies remind us of it everyday-is that Germany will not be excluded forever from her own defense...
Regarding your coverage of the ecumenical rhubarb: The comments [of the editor of the Christian Century] must surely place him foremost in the growing ranks of anti-Catholics who betray their religious inferiority complex by blindly condemning the church's dogma of infallibility. Rather than attempt to disprove this claim, the editor prefers to disqualify this assertion by simply stating it cannot be true . . . The amalgamation of quasi-secular interests and ministerial tea parties which he prefers leads to chaos simplified-the dilemma of the Protestant churches today. By the way, I'm a non-Catholic...
Leopardi: A Study in Solitude is the foremost appreciation in English of the poet whom Italy ranks next to her greatest-Dante, Petrarch, Tasso. First printed in 1935 (but never before in the U.S.), it reappears now containing so much new matter that it is virtually a new book. Or, to put it another way, British-born Marchesa Iris Origo has dredged up so much new misery that Leopardi may now be seen to have been even unhappier than he was in the first edition...