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...Brien seasons with teasers. Why, for instance, is poached trout called Trout Sisera? Most cooks without a concordance would not know where to look: Sisera's sorry story is in Judges 4 and 5, and the poaching of trout is presumably suggested by the water with which Jehovah swamped Sisera's "900 chariots of iron...
...Nathan H. Knorr, president of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, announced that Jehovah's Witnesses now have 700,000 members in 162 countries. "Our numbers have tripled in Poland in the last seven years," he said, "although we are banned and persecuted in all Iron Curtain countries." Witness growth he attributed to the sense of being faced by a "deadline"-the Battle of Armageddon, which Witnesses calculate will take place some time before...
There is something destructive in all grades whether they be A's or B's. It is their inarticulateness. They are the stuttering of a powerful Jehovah. Learning is not interested in being told how good or bad it is; it is interested in being responded to, in being shown what is being done wrong. Let us look at the question logically. Socratically, what it the point in telling a student he is stupid if he is stupid; and if he is not stupid, what is the point in telling him that...
...last age, consciously and feverishly the last, in which people had the feeling that if they only took the trouble to join something, get a party card, wear a special shirt, organise meetings and bellow slogans, they could influence the course of events. Since 1946 nobody above the Jehovah's Witness level has taken this attitude...
...regret it. Author Marcus Bach, writer on offbeat religions (Strange Altars), was treating his subjects so sympathetically that sect-shopping Century readers were writing in to ask how they could get in touch. Managing Editor Theodore A. Gill, a staunch Presbyterian, grimly published all the articles-on Psychiana, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unity and Baha'i; then he tore off an editorial taking the sects apart...