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...committee did was to add to the totality of what the church believes. Scriptural criticism has made it clear that the Bible is not inerrant in all factual details. Dowey argued that to call the Bible "the normative witness," rather than infallible, is to assert its power as "the norm or authority over all other witness," but he, also conceded, after hearing strong conservative criticism, that some better word might have to be found...
...this lushly produced, smoothly vulgarized adaptation of a 1963 novel by Rumer Godden, effusions like "binding, inescapable, unforgettable" are as common as teacups at a Wednesday bridge luncheon. But breathless rhetoric apparently is the norm for sensible English matrons who desert home and family to live in guilty splendor with pianists on the shores of Italy's Lago di Garda. Maureen and Rossano have no sooner snuggled into his sumptuous Villa Fiorita than her pint-sized son and daughter (Martin Stephens, Elizabeth Dear) arrive. They have paid their fare to Italy by selling the girl's pet pony...
...Coach Norm Shepard will probably send junior John Scott to the mound against Brandeis, and save ace Jim McCandlish to pitch against the Crusaders in Splinter Stadium...
...scores back in the bottom of the third against Crimson starter Jim McCandlish. George Neville increased the Harvard placed to 4-2 in, the sixth when he knocked in Hootstein with a single. Northeastern promptly countered with another run in the bottom of the inning, and Coach Norm Shepard replaced McCandlish with John Scott...
...Destined in the senate to argue the necessity of equating black and white, already young Summer had the temerity to equate buff and white. It is a credit to his rhetoric (more interminable than grandiloquent, in this instance) that in the trial following his third departure from the college norm, the exhausted faculty voted " . . . that in the future, Summer's vest be regarded by this board as white...