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...simple ceremony of ordination. It is conferred only upon Orthodox rabbis who 1) have devoted years to intensive study of the Talmud and the complex, exacting Jewish Law, and 2) have satisfied their rabbinical superiors as to their scholarship and piety. Without receiving S'micha, rabbis may preach, head synagogues and serve as chaplains, but for Orthodox Jews may decide no questions of Jewish...
...70th rebirthday" in Los Angeles, reported joyfully that she was founding a Church of the Divine Dance. "People mustn't think this is a phony," said she. "I am an Episcopalian." This church, however, would be "universal, nonsectarian." Dancer St. Denis hoped to get ministers in to preach guest-sermons; she would preach herself; and she and a "rhythmic choir" would explain things further by dancing.* Mystical-minded, dead-earnest St. Denis had often toyed with such a project before, but nothing much ever came of it. "I want now to work for God and nothing else," said...
...same city, two years ago, Gil Dodds, the runner whose style outraged the copybooks but whose speed broke mile records, had forsaken track to preach the word of God. His old coaches had begged him to try running again. Finally he agreed. Explained earnest Gil Dodds, 28: "I prayed about it, of course. And my wife consented...
Neutra met Wright at Sullivan's funeral in 1924. Soon afterwards, with his wife and mother-in-law, he paid a long visit to Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin. Neutra named his eldest son for Wright, went forth to preach the gospel of modern architecture on lecture tours which took him from Rome to Tokyo. He long ago fashioned a style of his own, and made mass housing his main interest...
...three months on Iona. Throughout the rest of the year both groups follow a daily Rule, and meet at intervals. While the Iona craftsmen spend their nine months on the mainland at their regular jobs, the ministers-each of whom has signed up for two years-go forth to preach in small towns, organize community projects in crowded industrial cities, or work in parishes that' are trying to apply the lona principles...