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...discourage prospective converts at least three times. But if applicants insist, the code provides a mechanism for conversion. Rabbi Ralph Simon, new president of the Jewish Information Society, is calling for more "aggressive presentation of Judaism, with conviction on the part of those who do this work that we possess unique truths, that can contribute to a peaceful and perfected world...
Summer is in no sense an important work of art. It lacks the creative energy to exhaust and essentialize its subject. But it does possess, among many venial delights, one cardinal virtue. Most U.S. films about children are goose-greased with old-fashioned sentiment or mink-oiled with the latest commercial variety of false feeling. But in Summer every moment of emotion comes in strong and clear and full, every moment is natural and true. Nobody who sees this film will want to deny that the Russian people can feel profoundly and can understand profoundly what they feel. Whatever they...
Gideon (by Paddy Chayefsky) explores the relationship of an ordinary man to God. There could scarcely be a larger theme. It demands great powers of eloquence and intellect, a burning air of exaltation that Playwright Chayefsky does not fully command. But he does possess high gifts of humor, characterization, and a sense of the dominion and perplexity of faith, and these help make his play a lustrous and compelling experience...
...massive power that science and technology have given the state to raise living standards and increase social welfare. It also warns the state of the danger this power carries to restrict the freedom of the individual. The state must therefore be careful to protect "the right that individual persons possess of being always primarily responsible for their own upkeep and that of their own family, which implies that in the economic systems the free development of productive activities should be permitted and facilitated...
Barry Goldwater has the same faults that most of the top Republicans in this country possess. They come up with nice, simple solutions for all the problems that confront the U.S. and the world today. And the great danger is that the longer the cold war goes on, the more powerful these men are going to become. They are using the real fear of Communism for their personal ambitions...