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...hours later, as Wilkinson debarks in Marietta, Ohio, Spanky Duley and some other deckhands request a sermon the next time the chaplain comes on. He mulls Mark 4: 35, in which Jesus and the disciples, crossing the Sea of Galilee to preach on the far shore, encounter a storm that threatens their boat. "The guys on the towboats may not think they are in a spectacularly good environment in which to be religious," Wilkinson says. "But in the end, I think they can minister to one another. You know, the disciples ultimately got safely to the other side of that...
Gabler does not preach reform. He advocates awareness, and he is good at what he does. Although on one level it might be nice to have a book outline the best course of growth and correction for our society, that is difficult and dangerous. Life the Movie is not rhetoric or propaganda. It is simply a searching and clear-sighted analysis of American culture, and it will change the way you look at your surroundings and yourself...
...retrospect, Merrill Lynch was really Charlie Merrill's bully pulpit, the platform from which he could preach the virtues of the stock market and show the country that the small investor could get a fair shake on Wall Street. "Demystification had been the key to [my father's] great success," James Merrill later wrote in his memoir. "No more mumbo-jumbo from Harvard men in paneled rooms; let the stock market's workings henceforth be intelligible even to the small investor." To that end, the firm published an endless stream of reports, magazines, pamphlets--11 million pieces in 1955 alone...
PRACTICING WHAT THEY PREACH...
...appalled by the so-called Christians who preach "God-sanctioned" hatred [NATION, Oct. 26]. Didn't Christ preach tolerance for his fellow man, regardless of his personal life-style? JANNA PEEVLER Knoxville, Tenn...