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...humanistic cynicism without dissolving completely into the philosophical ramblings that he enjoyed so much. Not that Shaw curbed his didacticism in this play; he created a long episode of Don Juan in Hell specifically as a setting for what he called a "Shavio-Socratic dialogue." But Shaw could preach without becoming soporific. John Cunningham's commanding performance as Don Juan helps prevent the scene in Hell from going entirely limp. And Frank Lucas's portrayal of a civilized, romantic Lucifer is as delightfully incongruous as his depiction of Mendoza, the brigand chief...
...from haircuts (long, but not too long) to swimsuits (cotton, a size too small). They speak a lingo of words like "hook" (the lip of a breaking wave) and "tube" (the cavern under the hook) and "wipe out" (a spill into the boiling froth). They listen to apostles, who preach: "When the surf is good, you've got to go and get it. Work is secondary. Once you're about 30, then it's time to take a solid job." And they all yearn to visit Makaha, a lonely beach 40 miles west of Honolulu...
Redemption. More and more, King spends his time in airplanes, journeying to the far corners of the U.S. to speak and preach to huge audiences. He traveled about 275,000 miles in 1963 and made more than 350 speeches. Wherever he goes, the threat of death hovers in the form of crackpots. "I just don't worry about things like this," he says. "If I did, I just couldn't get anything done. One time I did have a gun in Montgomery. I don't know why I got it in the first place. I sat down...
...eliminating the prejudice against Christianity as an unwanted "cultural import." The young churches of the East are nationalizing their hierarchies and structures as fast as means allow and are developing mission forces of their own. More than 200 missionaries have been sent from one Asian land to another to preach the faith in unmistakably non-Western accents...
...Western countries. This year, for example, the United Church of North India and Pakistan sent the Rev. Emmanuel Johnson to Glasgow, where he works in a mission parish that serves both emigrants from Pakistan and Scots. In time, more missionaries from the East will be called upon to preach the Gospel in Christian countries that are in need of re-evangelizing-including the U.S. Next spring, the National Council of Churches plans to send teams of ministers and laymen who are experts on racial conflict to Mississippi. The teams will include foreigners, probably from Africa and the melting-pot slums...