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Such rules have long struck many Protestants as the height of ecclesiastical arrogance, and last week the Committee on Church and Nation of the Church of Scotland (1,307,000 members) came right out and said so. In a report to the General Assembly of the Kirk, the committee declared that the Catholic attitude toward mixed marriages "cannot escape unqualified moral condemnation." It urged the Kirk to warn young people about the dangers of marrying Catholics, argued that "no member of the Church has any moral right to make such a promise binding children yet unborn to be brought...
...Kirk report could hardly be praised for its ecumenical tone, and a decade ago might have inspired Catholic polemicists to a chorus of criticism. But not in the era of open-minded Pope John XXIII. Among the proposals scheduled for discussion when the Vatican Council reconvenes next fall is an important schema on the sacraments, prepared with the help of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. If the schema is approved, Protestants would no longer be forced to promise in writing that they would raise offspring of a mixed marriage as Catholics. Moreover, some bishops are expected...
This outside pressure creates an inside pressure: academic conformity among thousands of bystanding professors. Historian Russell Kirk has denounced the academic community's "voluntary conformity to pragmatic smugness and the popular shibboleths of the day." In the words of a Stanford professor, "No one wants the boat rocked, and freedom with responsibility usually means keeping your mouth shut...
President Grayson Kirk approved the UDC proposal in a letter to the undergraduates, but said that Columbia students would have to prove their responsibility and maturity by refraining from riots and panty raids in the future. Panty raids have often been the only way for Columbia boys to meet students from Barnard College, a girls school across the street on Broadway and 116th...
...illustrated in an incident of the Korean war. Three U.S. soldiers, a sergeant and two privates, rescue a North Korean airman (Enrique Magalona) downed in an inlet. When they radio headquarters, they receive a command worded with discretion but ice-clear in intention; shoot the prisoner. The sergeant (Kirk Douglas) brusquely orders the privates to do it. The first (Robert Walker) refuses. The second (Nick Adams) raises his pistol-but cannot pull the trigger. The sergeant explodes. A private replies: "Why not shoot him yourself, sir? And look him right in the eye." The sergeant, a small-bore sadist, raises...