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Centuries ago the Roman Catholic Church branded the Copts as heretics, notably because they believed that Christ's "divinity was not separated from His manhood for one moment or for the twinkling of an eye." Islam diminished but never drowned the Coptic influence. In the 17th Century, Jesuits failed to win the Ethiopian Copts to the Roman Catholic fold. Now the Egyptian Copts fear that if Haile Selassie's demand is denied, he may align the Ethiopian Copts with a rival body-perhaps the Greek Orthodox Church...
...sharp-faced, crusty Q addressed and amazed a conference of churchmen: "I do hold that a total abstainer ... is in the nature of things imperfectly equipped for high literature, because high literature, both in its creation and its full enjoyment, demands total manhood, of which a teetotal manhood is obviously a modification...
...bellow for over an hour what he chose to title "Personal Statement about a Lying Human Skunk." Excerpts: "Pearson is just an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, even if he is a paid liar. . . . When a man is a natural-born liar, a liar during his manhood and all the time, a congenital liar, a liar by profession, a liar for a living, a liar in the attempt to amuse, or to be as he thinks smart, a liar in the daytime, and a liar in the nighttime, it is remarkable how he can lie. . . . That would...
...psychotics were in the courtroom. As the Lonergan trial got under way-Novelist James Thomas Farrell (The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) was having trouble with the Manhattan police. His publisher (Vanguard Press) was visited by four different parties of cops who professed to see a connection between Wayne Lonergan and Studs Lonigan. Later a cop from a prowl car tried shyly to buy a copy of the novel from a First Avenue bookshop. It was out of stock...
...brought the Royal Canadian Navy up from rachitic infancy to lusty manhood headed this week across the Atlantic. Wiry Vice Admiral Percy Walker Nelles (rhymes with Hellas), C.B., had left his post of Chief of the Naval Staff at Ottawa after ten years. He had shifted the flag of the Senior Canadian Naval officer to London, to direct his ships and men in the invasion of Europe...