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...spiritual one. "I don't believe in God," he says, "but I don't believe in man either. Humanism has failed. It didn't prevent the monstrous acts of our generation. It has lent itself to excusing and justifying all kinds of horrors. It has misunderstood man. It has tried to cut him off from all other manifestations of nature...
During the last twenty years, high American officials have repeatedly misunderstood China's interests, intentions and capabilities. In the 1950's, scholars who saw through the myth of monolithic communism and called attention to the peculiarly Chinese nature of communism in China were denounced as something less than honest, wise or loyal. In contrast to their view, Dean Rusk, then Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, proclaimed that Mao's government was only a puppet of Moscow: "The Peiping regime is a colonial Russian puppet government. ...It is not Chinese." He and his colleagues also insisted that China...
Maude Hutchins writes like a lascivious I. Compton-Burnett. Her book is almost all dialogue-voices, echoes, whispers-misunderstood, unheard, ambiguous. Somehow she manages to remain irreverent and even lighthearted about the transgressions she describes. In her eleventh book, she seems more and more like a naughty little girl herself, eavesdropping on man's folly and shouting the embarrassing words for everybody to hear...
...well be called How to Win Friends and Influence God. Yet The Way has sold more than 2,000,000 copies in 15 languages, including Tagalog and Swahili, and is now being translated into 15 other tongues. It is the only written credo of a rapidly expanding but widely misunderstood religious organization known as the Sacerdotal Society of the Holy Cross and Opus...
...clubs properly influence political decisions, it is a basic rejection of the importance of God himself if the church is to be inactive or silent." The Hebrew prophets as well as the New Testament, believes Blake, give grounds for church involvement. "The gospel is no longer being misunderstood as simply a spiritual affair. The church cannot be merely interested in the salvation of souls. It must be interested in the salvation of men, both souls and bodies...