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Nonetheless, theologians also acknowledge that only God is the final judge of who can rightly be considered a Christian. Austrian Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner, for example, suggests that there is today "an invisible Christianity which does indeed possess the justification of sanctifying grace from God. A man belonging to this invisible Christianity may deny his Christianity or maintain that he does not know whether he is a Christian or not. Yet God may have chosen him in grace." Similarly, the late Protestant theologian Paul Tillich contrasted the "manifest church" of confessed believers with what he called the "latent church," whose...
...White House Aide Jack Valenti, now the $125,000-a-year president of the Motion Picture Association of America, contributed a Washington Post article deploring the "holy regard" among Americans for a President's "charisma." Wrote Valenti: "The only two modern figures who could be truly said to possess magic charisma, whose voice and person cast a spell over their countrymen and whom people followed blindly and exultingly were the two largest tyrants of our age, Hitler and Mussolini." Somehow, he overlooked such charismatic non-tyrants as Churchill and Gandhi, Roosevelt and De Gaulle-and for that matter, John...
...wards, scores of whites are arming themselves-with scant discouragement from the police-and forming white vigilante gangs "to repel an invasion." Led by Contractor Anthony Imperiale, who deeply fears new and worse conflagrations in Newark, the vigilantes now prowl the city in "Jungle Cruisers," and are said to possess an arsenal of 1,000 rifles, an armored car and five helicopters...
...example, tells Kahlenberg that he knows a private collector with a 16mm print of Air Mail. Although Air Mail is legally owned either by Universal, or Ford and his producer, it has slipped into one of the hundreds of excellent underground collections of films throughout the country: collections which possess all of Chaplin's features, and such classics as Murnau's Tabu, Rosselini's Paisan, complete versions of Fritz Lang's first Doctor Mabuse, and early films by Jean Renoir, to name some of the most popular items in the underground market...
...Saigon, there lived a willful wife who had long refused to let her husband indulge his fancy to possess a prize nightingale. But after the Viet Cong attacked the city, bringing destruction and frightening the people, she took her savings and went to the bird market. There she bought the best rossignol to be had. Returning home, she then presented this symbol of love to her surprised husband with the words: "I have denied you in the past, dear husband, but now that we have no future, we must live for today...