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...slipped in numbers. Together with liberal forms of Catholicism and Judaism, the progressive Protestant denominations are hoist with their own petard. Their very creedal flexibility precludes the certitude that attracts converts. In fact, believes California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, Christianity may be losing its power to grip the imagination. "We have become imageless," he says. "We have no symbols like Moses' passage through the Red Sea. We are empty people. The elements of mystery in the church have been almost systematically removed. But hunger for the mysterious is widespread in all people. We cannot be human...
Brandt's popularity remains high in West Germany, and his grip on his party's top job is unchallenged-but he is now tired and tense. If the Hannover congress should fail to support him fully in the face of the Jusos rebellion, he might tell it to look for a new leader...
...ugly thing; this sullen hateful dead mouth; with no remembrances of the soft or ungentle touches it once knew from flowers, or snowballs, a night-stick, a stone, or clean linen. It knows only its tight evil grip to the harsh teeth behind...
...Gambril decided to concentrate on the 800-yd. free relay later in the program. Jim McKonica of Southern Cal won the championship final in 1:39.625 after qualifying sixth and barely reaching the finals. Indiana, with a 2-3 performance from John Kinsella and Fred Tyler, strengthened its grip on first...
...corporation that seems to have a grip on the Department is Data Resources Inc., a consulting firm founded and directed by Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics...