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...Harvard, Dr. King chose not to analyze issues. Instead he spoke eloquently, with the rhetoric of the preacher and politician, and interspersed platitudes with references to William James, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Thoreau, Gordon Allport and a score more. His speech here was not very good. In another context--e.g., the dramatic setting of the Washington March--he can be magnificent...
...latest blastled a government spokesman to suggest that it would be wiser to ignore the thoughts of a man "who cannot always distinguish clearly between realities and fantasies." Hannover's Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje called ballot invalidation "a mistaken means of striving for peace." Hamburg Theologian-Preacher Helmut Thielicke said: "Niemöller is a typical German, who has no sense for compromise." But German church leaders, though embarrassed by Niemöller's political views, have never moved to depose him because of his international prestige. At 73, he has retired from all his offices...
...seen his bastard son for at least two years, and he can't see why he should get stuck with a black family as well as a black skin. Then one day he meets a pretty schoolteacher (Abbey Lincoln), daughter of the town's principal Negro preacher. They fall in love, and against all his self-defensive instincts the hero asks her to marry...
...whirlwind one-day trip to Boston yesterday with a speech to an overflow crowd of 1730 admirers in Rindge Tech auditorium. Earlier in the day he was from Logan Airport to preach a sermon in Memorial . That was followed by a lunch given by the Rev. P. Price, Preacher to the University, and later a sponsored by the Young Democrats...
...Nameless Woe. In a new paperback called The Gospel According to Peanuts (Knox; $1.50), Short contends that the cartoon, whose creator is a lay preacher in the Church of God of Anderson, Ind., is a modern variety of prophetic literature, full of useful parables for the times. For example, "the doctrine of original sin is a theme constantly being dramatized in Peanuts." When Charlie Brown gloomily confides to Linus that he has "been confused right from the day I was born," he sums up the "nameless woe" that is at the heart of man's predicament...