Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey, and that old Romeo Zachary Scott ride the merry-go-round with as much levity as they can muster, but the trip is too bumpy, the pace too slow, and the verbiage too heavy. In short, "Let's Make It Legal" is a terrible show...
...through Fri. noon, CBS-TV) has followed the familiar progression: novel to movie to radio or TV show. Betty MacDonald's saga of a city couple on a chicken farm is inspirational in tone, concerned with small problems, and played to the hilt by the cast, notably by a breathless actress named Pat Kirkland...
Last week Presbyterian Macdonald, 36, now pastor of Edinburgh's St. George's West Church, told Americans how to clean up the kind of corrosion he has found outside the Isle of Skye. To a big midsummer congregation in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and to students at Union Theological Seminary, he gave the same message: "The thing wrong with religion today the world over, and especially in America, is that it is too centrally heated, too cozy and comfortable." His remedy: less social psychology and good fellowship, more emphasis on an austere gospel of sacrifice...
...Macdonald learned the worth of sacrifice in a hard school. In 1942, after two years as a British army chaplain, he switched to combat duty with the paratroopers. A bit later, while commanding a platoon in North Africa, he was taken prisoner. Until the end of the war, he ministered to fellow prisoners, mostly U.S. airmen, in a Luftwaffe camp. "The war," he said, "taught us the indescribable latent courage of the ordinary person...
This spiritual courage can only be evoked by a strong spiritual message. Although Macdonald greatly admires the informal relations which often exist between U.S. ministers and their congregations ("Perhaps we in Britain are more formal"), he doubts that good fellowship and social consciousness can be substituted for active Christianity...