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Preserving Freedom. The Disciples can easily talk union because they combine a maximum of spiritual freedom with a minimum of churchly trappings. Their congregations practice baptism by immersion, elect their own pastors, allow laymen (and women) to conduct the austere Sunday services, which may omit a sermon but never omit Communion. The Disciples have no confession or creed, and the divinity of Christ is their sole rule of faith. "Ever since the beginning, we've been scared to death that we'd arrive at a theology everyone would have to subscribe to," says Industrialist J. Irwin Miller...
...emerges clearly from the book, it is that the present system has reached a dead end. In a technological age which demands that public education be run wisely and efficiently, Conant finds that our schools are staffed with too many poorly trained teachers; that local school boards regularly flaunt minimum state standards in hiring teachers; that teachers are assigned to subjects which they have studied insufficiently or not at all; and that teachers are required to take courses in "methods" or "foundations of education" which are often worthless...
...story and then edit it down to a comprehensive plot, Drew has ingeniously applied the "group journalism" of magazine like Time and Newsweek to a new journalistic medium. One hopes that in the editing of film, Drew will be able to continue to present insights with a minimum of bias and oversimplification...
...voluntarily formed central organizations for collective bargaining. These groups consider the national interest when they make price and wage agreements, and they have prevented the costly strikes that harass the U.S. economy. The Swedish government follows a strict hands-off policy: it has not even had to set a minimum wage. But Myrdal admits that the voluntarism that works for small Sweden, with a population less than New York City's, may not work for the sprawling...
...dresses themselves were completely ritualistic, and bore little, if any, resemblance to normal or rational attire. All were of one pattern, save only for those of the leader and under leaders. Each was designed to combine a strictly regulated minimum of decorum with yet a more than adequate hint of charm and personality undisclosed. The vivid colours, the high piled coiffures, on which many hours of preparation had been lavised, primping and setting each curly ringlet in place with preparations of rancid butter, wax and oil; the fantastic feathered headdress of the "magajiya" (leader of the female dancers), the throb...