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...Pasternak calls for disengagement. By that he does not mean detachment from the world, but attachment to human values. It is not the function of the writer, says Pasternak, to serve principalities and powers. Communism or capitalism. The task of men of letters, as he sees it, is to heed "the living voice of life," to bear witness to the good, the true and the beautiful. By example, Pasternak calls on writers to return to the universal themes of life and death, man and God, good and evil, and the joys, sorrows and splendors of love...
...good and happy life, but forgets that men do not necessarily believe what is useful. Huxley's plan, apart from his perfect pill, seems to involve cooperative communities, birth control and freedom. Sound as some of this may be, the depraved old world is unlikely to heed. And the thought of aging (64) Aldous-an intellectual well past average breeding age-proffering a prophylactic to the teeming East is downright funny. Reactionaries will continue to listen to Singing Theologicals and hope against Stopes...
...even Peng himself apparently expected Chiang to heed Peking's appeal for direct negotiations with the Nationalists...
...your women keep silence in the churches," wrote St. Paul to the Corinthians, and most of the traditional denominations have paid him heed. But the pressure is on. In 1956 the Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. opened the ministry to women. Last week Sweden's state-church Lutherans decided that the Swedes, too, were different from the Corinthians...
President stirred hearts and minds with an eloquent plea that the wonders of atomic science be "not dedicated to man's death but consecrated to his life.'' This time he had an even more urgent task: to set forth, for the world to hear and heed, U.S. policy toward the brawling, broiling Middle East...