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...view of the wear and tear, the enormous problems of the job, his wife's reluctance about his running, is he making the race. "I guess it goes all the way back to how I was raised in Italy. We grow up there respecting our parents and our priest and our teachers and our officials. To be a leader of any kind was to be respected. So when La Guardia gave me a chance in 1944 to become an assistant corporation counsel, I never thought twice. Public service gets in your blood...
...page volume was written by a quartet of authors-a Roman Catholic priest, a rabbi and two Protestant scholars-and contains extensive selections from both Old and New Testaments. Its value, however, lies mainly in its wealth of commentary, which provides a cultural understanding of the Bible that few college graduates possess. Moreover, disputed texts are fully and carefully interpreted, explaining the basic Jewish, Protestant and Catholic viewpoints...
...idea for the book originated with Jesuit Priest Walter M. Abbott ten years ago-four years before the Supreme Court decision-while he was an editor of America. Work began in 1961 after Father Abbott had been joined by Dr. Rolfe Lanier Hunt, a Methodist educator, the Rev. J. Carter Swaim, a Biblical scholar and Presbyterian pastor, and Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, now dean of the Jewish Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia...
...Shell Game. Through the years, Sheil's views were often antithetical to those of his church: he opposed, for instance, the Franco regime in Spain. He was among the first to assail the Sunday afternoon fulminations of Radio Priest Charles Coughlin at. home. He adopted as his own the words of French Cardinal Jules Saliege: "The Kingdom of God is not of this world, but it is in this world that...
...newest film, may go some small way toward razing the barrier. Adapted from a Dostoevski novella about the suicide of a young bride, Une Femme Douce finds Bresson dealing once again with the corruption of innocence, a theme that has dominated his work from Diary of a Country Priest to last year's Mouchette. For the first time, however, his central character is something more than a passive, symbolic victim. Her suicide is portrayed as a positive act of defiance, not desperation. Bresson's customary stylistic austerity seems softened by his first use of color film, but what...