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...beaten her the year after they were married; she had filed for divorce in 1966, and then withdrew. Currently, another divorce suit is pending. More important, said the defense, was the fact that "the federal and state constitutions guarantee to all religious groups the right to hold and preach doctrines." If that guarantee is meaningful, then surely a church cannot be liable for the consequences of stating a specific belief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domestic Relations: Alienated by Radio | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Bernstein, a leader of the Party, was the first revisionist, and stripped Marxism of its revolutionary practices. The Social Democratic Party, however, continued to preach revolutionary orthodoxy, and many people continued to think of them as firebrands...

Author: By Larry A. Estridge, | Title: Black Power Blues | 3/14/1968 | See Source »

Many clergymen have applauded Steinberg's non-homilies, on the ground that his satirizing of the wrathful, capricious God of legend is good theology as well as good fun. Steinberg keeps being invited to preach in churches and synagogues. Is he irreverent? Perhaps. But, argue his fans, who can question that God, too, has a sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Word: Pop Preaching | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...That Hut." Wherever he went, he had a tendency to lecture the troops, even to preach. To Christian and non-Christian alike, he emphasized the divinity of Christ, appealed for stoical acceptance of death on the battlefield and quoted Sherwood Anderson, Joan of Arc, Shakespeare and the Bible. As the troops were eating Christmas dinner at Cu Chi northwest of Saigon, Romney made a little sermonette, suited, if for anything at all, for Good Friday. "We have to lose ourselves for others," he declared, as his audience listened in silence. "Some have to lose our lives young and some when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: Romney Goes to the War | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...child is in living up to his. To avoid "hurting" children, he shields them from adult power, indulges their impulses, and thus inflicts the injury that a New York headmaster calls "denial of denial." Such children are stunned when they discover that parents don't practice what they preach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON BEING AN AMERICAN PARENT | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

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