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Uprooting. From this diagnosis, the group deduced that it would be useless merely to preach democracy to the German people: they are emotionally incapable of understanding the democratic principles of give & take and cooperation among equals. Suggesting a "stern" peace rather than a "hard" one, they proposed a complete uprooting of the institutions which have been the sources of Germany's infection...
Imitations of the authentic French originals sprang up in England like dubious mushrooms- gutter lovers, Beau Brummels, professional sensualists, practical jokers, drug fiends. Mildest, most influential apostle of the new, sensuous estheticism was Oxford's Walter Pater. As a child, he had loved to don a surplice and "preach sermons to his admiring Aunt Betty." As a youth, he had avoided horse play ("I do not seem to want a black eye"). As a professor, he coined a famed phrase when he solemnly urged his students "to burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame." "Oh, for Crime!" But most...
...less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon in a handy cow shelter. Robert Owen went on, for 30-odd years, to preach the doctrine of equality, reform and free love to crowned heads and commoners all over Europe and to plan more Utopias...
Last week the Rev. Douglas Cedarleaf, 31, decided to take a hand. First, he preached a sermon, "Vandalism in Throop Street," to his Erie Chapel Presbyterian Church (white) congregation (which included the Strongs). Then he taught them the great Negro anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. And then he asked them to escort the Strongs home. Some 135 of the congregation's 175 did. Throop Street heard them coming: they were all singing the anthem. At the Strongs' doorstep they formed a circle. Curious neighbors leaning out of their windows saw the minister give the Strongs a Bible...
...Doran ($2.50). Rove Carruthers would rather dream great deeds than do them. Aged 16 and a man by Ozark standards, he loves Jubilee, hates go-getting, hardworking Abner Holly. But even Jubilee grows impatient with Rove when he neglects his new farm because he has heard the call to preach. The story of how Rove finally wins over Jubilee by driving Abner to the sinners' bench at pistol point is a slight but colorful description of Ozark manners, with humor and charm for the sympathetic reader...