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...Executive Board of the HLU last night authorized Christopher Niebuhr '56 to "use his own discretion" at the meeting, after violent disagreement about local endorsement of the Springfield candidate. Niebuhr then stated that he will not back Furcolo, who has in the past year incurred ADA wrath. On the other hand, Niebuhr will not recommend endorsement of Leverett P. Saltonstall '14, incumbent Republican senator, for reelection either...
This decision may be influenced by the final choice of the state organization. In spite of Niebuhr's refusing to back Furcolo, the state ADA may endorse him. Then, although the Liberal Union is autonomous,, endorsement of Furcolo becomes, according to Niebuhr, "a matter of fair play...
...Monat establishes the link by printing articles by such writers as T. S. Eliot. Bertrand Russell, Joseph Schumpeter, Benedetto Croce, Arthur Koestler, Sidney Hook, Aldous Huxley and Reinhold Niebuhr. Articles, all translated into German, cover every subject, from the relationship between Christianity and Western civilization to the real place of Wall Street in the U.S. economy. 'George Orwell's biting anti-Communist satires, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, were translated into German only in the pages of Der Monat...
...Graves yet been caught out in any historical blunder which invalidates his findings on the Graeco-Roman side of the problem; though he dared tempt British New Testament experts with valuable money prizes if they could spot one. Together they have even persuaded leading U.S. Protestant Theologian Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr to take the book seriously with: "The authors have labored so diligently and within the limits of their presuppositions so honestly, that the volume will be of great service to both Christians and Jews if they have time to read so large a volume and the money...
...silly, thinks Niebuhr, to advertise Christianity by insisting on what, to the secular-minded, will seem "fantastic," i.e., the Second Coming. "The New Testament eschatology is at once too naive for a sophisticated world and too sophisticated for the simple-minded modern man, who has become so accustomed to trying to make sense out of life by measuring history in terms of some scheme of rational intelligibility . . . While the present seems a very strategic era in which to restore a part of the New Testament faith which had become discredited and obscured, we need only to analyze the needs...