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...stage in the Pepys-watching game, the diarist has become his own literary character whom biographers must attack or defend according to their tastes and their times. To 19th century moralists, for instance, Pepys was that most off-putting of hypocrites: a pious lecher - a Uriah Heep who could preach sanctimoniously to a fellow tomcat while he himself was goatishly seducing pretty Mrs. Bagwell, the carpenter's wife...
Lester Brown, who is one of America's best agricultural economists, does not try to cajole, shock, or threaten his audience into action. He does not preach apocalypse, or even seem to fear it. Instead, he warns that standards of living around the world must fall if the world's population keeps doubling every thirty-five years. In The Human Interest offers a sketch of today's population problems and a prescription for stabilization...
...that note of superiority, together with a declaration that "the church must preach Jesus Christ to the world," that irritated a number of Jewish leaders. In a statement of reply, the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations welcomed the guidelines' "urgent condemnation of anti-Semitism and discrimination," but objected to "the suggestion that Judaism look outside its own doctrine and dogmas for fulfillment." It also questioned the compatibility of Christian evangelization with the guidelines' assertion that "dialogue demands respect for the other...
...must endeavor, with God's help, not to give in. If faith cannot "work" even for us, how could the sermons our husbands preach from the Holy Scriptures be of any hope to our flock...
...succeeded in laying bare Shaw's fundamental message. And perhaps it would be unfair to expect them to, because Shaw himself buried it in his final "stage direction," a postscript to "the reader" in which Shaw reveals that his own favorite character is not the preacher, who continues to preach despite his loss of faith, and who is the character most likely to be identified with Shaw, but rather the patient--"the woman of action...