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Taken at face value, John Owen Beaty, professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, would seem to be a, most sedate sort of scholar. An affable, ruddy-faced man with a Ph.D. (Columbia, 1921), he has been a member of S.M.U.'s English department for 34 years, served as its head for 13. But of all the professors the university has ever had, none has proved more embarrassing than friendly Dr. Beaty...
...race-baiting Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, Beaty's book was "the greatest ... of its kind ever to appear in print." But to S.M.U.'s President Umphrey Lee, an ordained Methodist clergyman, it was frankly disturbing. "I do not know how to put the matter any stronger," said he, at the Dallas Salesmanship Club, "than in the words of the supreme legislative body of my church: 'AntiSemitism is a deadly sin.'" Nevertheless, since Beaty kept insisting that he was not really antiSemitic, he remained at his post, partly because of the two-way laws of academic...
...Gestapo? In a pamphlet called "How to Capture a University," Beaty charged that "a certain powerful, non-Christian element in our population" was trying to "dominate Southern Methodist University." For one thing, the university's own Southwest Review seemed to be highly susceptible not only to anti-McCarthy authors (e.g., President Henry Wriston of Brown University) but also to B'nai B'rith, which, according to Beaty, "is sometimes referred to as the 'Jewish Gestapo...
...Dead Faint? Roman Catholics and Episcopalians on the one hand and small cults and sects on the other pay more attention to healing, says Zelley, than the so-called "major denominations"-Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc. "[Suppose] a Methodist woman is taken with a severe case of neuritis. Her Roman Catholic friend will light a candle and make a novena for her healing. Her Christian Science friend will send her literature telling her how to remove the consciousness of pain. Her cultist friend will give her an 'anointed cloth' to be laid on the afflicted part. Perhaps after...
...Same Breath. Methodist Zelley's prescription is for pastors and laymen "to give some time to group prayer with specific aims. The size of the group is not as important as the quality of its ideals. There is no reason why every church could not investigate the possibility of holding regular 'healing services...