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Clergymen will also be asked to revive the old New England custom of "election sermons," plump for candidates who show awareness that political life needs the leaven of Christian teaching to make good political, economic and social conditions...
...Sympathy . . . not pity but fellow-suffering. . . . The churches must lose their lives for Christ's sake and that of the brethren, become the hidden leaven of a selfless love in the lump of misery called mankind, go out and share the bitter things with not one timid shudder, or else be trodden under foot by men who have learned what life is all about...
...Ballantine, 42, reports on the work of the Harvard Council on Post-War Problems, and William Hodson, '42, contributes an article on the techniques of campaigning for political candidates. Hodson, using as an illustration the efforts of the Harvard Liberal Union in Representative Eliot's 1940 campaign, provides a leaven of refreshing realism. Harvard's other contributions are "Two Parables" by Howard Nemerov, '41, poetry by William Ober, '41, and a summary of the Crimson editorial series, "Give Us the Blueprints...
...flying judgment-from the moment of take-off until they touched down once again on the airport. They had to learn to respect the tail gunner of an enemy bomber. But until cockiness got the better of them, and they scraped close to death, they could not learn to leaven courage with caution. And that took time...
...Royal Marines; Sir Roger's son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, who last year died leading a Commando raid on Rommel's headquarters in Libya; Winston's son, Captain Randolph Churchill, who is on duty in the Middle East. But the Commandos have a hardening, unsocial leaven. When a Commando unit raided Boulogne last April, one of the officers was a onetime London police inspector who stepped ashore in carpet slippers. Said he: "I intend to invade France in comfort...