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...signs of the times: "The only trouble with our intellectual habit of likening our times to the . . . decadent Roman Empire and the challenge of the barbarians is that in the earlier case there was a vital, revolutionary new leaven at work . . . Whether Christianity can once again perform that function remains to be seen. To do so would require a pretty radical rebirth of Christian thought, of which I wish I could see more signs. Perhaps we may find such a rebirth in the remembrance of the Birth, that timeless fact about God which did once turn the world upside down...
...from censorship to the ugliness of British welfare-state housing, but it has a sense of unity nevertheless. Kirk has a line and it is simply this: no political nostrum can cope with the unease of modern life. Modern man must keep what is best from the past and leaven it with personal integrity and a belief...
...show which in only ten weeks has consistently collected the biggest audiences ever assembled for summer shows,* introduced countless wage earners to the tax hazards of making money,† set back by at least a season, if not by years, TV's already enfeebled yearning to leaven commercialism with culture. The Manufacturers Trust Co. executive who sits each Tuesday night between guards (the real thing, from the same bank), to lend an air of reliability to the promised payoff, was promoted recently to full vice president. Gentle Gino Prato, who won thousands of hearts as well as thousands...
...revelations from Yalta again remind me of Christ's prophetic pronouncement: ". . . Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy" . . . And F.D.R.'s pious preachment: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity (love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal...
...swelled men's minds With a Christian leaven. It takes all kinds To make a heaven...