Word: gospeling
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With a whiff of Lucius Beebe just to make it all authentic, Hollywood has produced its latest treatise on New York night life. "Cafe Society," now playing at the Metropolitan, is a gospel on the beauties of the sweet-and-simple life, ranting against the Futility of Society. But Madeleine Carroll, as the slightly pixilated cafesse, succeeds in making herself so delightful, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless newspaper hack, is so colorless, that everyone leaves the picture convinced that Success is Society and Society is Heaven. If the audience is willing to discount the film's moralizing...
...specialist in the study of cities (he believes that cities are organisms and obey laws of organic growth-TIME, Aug. 22), Dr. Bailey admits he is no theologian but insists that he is a linguist. He paraphrases the word "Gospel" (good news) as "You'd be surprised!" Dr. Bailey contends that the original "You'd be surprised!" were written as "news flashes" in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic, that they should be rendered today in journalese. Thus he translates "Good Samaritan" as "good sport," "wise virgins" as "smart girls," "laying up a treasure" as "making a pile," "repent...
Thus runs a significant passage in Mein Kampf, Germany's Gospel-According-to-Hitler, which, written in jail in 1924, has called every turn on European history since...
...Christmas Day of 1938, the world which Christ's coming had been meant to save, the age which had vainly taken his name for nearly 2,000 years, were a world and an age in which Christ's Gospel was met, nearly everywhere and nearly always, with lip service, pagan indifference, subtle hostility or outright persecution. Symptomatic was a Nazi decree that in Germany Christmas was to be celebrated in "Germanic" rather than Christian fashion, that religion was to be kept out of public Yule exercises...
Dunster House, represented by Frank X. White '41 and Dan R. Crusius '41, successfully upheld the social gospel against the Adams team of Bernard J. McMahon '41 and John F. Ambrose...