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...notes, "later enable him to embrace the attitudes of each of his characters in turn with equal sincerity." Indeed, contradiction was a pattern that grew and intensified throughout Tolstoy's life: he was a great artist who denounced art, a nobleman who yearned to be a peasant, a preacher of humility who considered himself only once removed from Christ, a seeker of praise who dismissed it with an almost superstitious fear, an antimaterialist who never stopped acquiring land...
...Charles P. Price, Preacher to the University, accepted the $109,000 instrument--the largest organ of its kind constructed by an American in this century--from builder Charles B. Fisk '49. Done in pseudo-Baroque style to harmonize with Appleton Chapel, the choir section of the Church, the organ's gilded carvings were executed by Rockport artist Roger H. Martin...
Shedding the never-too-convincing guise of folksy preacher and avuncular counselor, he appeared before the TV cameras in the role he knows best-that of the combative, spontaneous, self-assured politician. At the same time Lyndon Johnson came across as an executive ready and willing at last to assert his leadership...
...Johnson failed to appear for a scheduled speech at the 100th anniversary celebration of the 650,000-member National Grange in Syracuse, N.Y., largely because thousands of antiwar pickets threatened to disrupt his visit. Grumbled one farmer: "He takes too much guff from people like these kids and that preacher...
...came most powerfully to life during a "confrontation"-a free-for-all discussion of racial antagonisms in which "someone in that crowd represents you." A group of 100 unrehearsed whites and Negroes gathered in a Chicago studio to blast away at one another. A Negro evangelical preacher reported that "our program is to try to solve the problem with love." "When he says Christian love," snorted Black Revolutionary Russ Meek, "he means Uncle Tomism! You're a disgrace to the race!" A Negro adolescent follower of Meek said: "I'm for violence, because we have pleaded...