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Christians have always been puzzled by the Moslem conquest, which took Islam to the Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
...folks. Morse is a distinguished, if pedagogic, orator ("My duty, as I see it, is to translate moral values into legislation")-but he is probably the coldest baby-kisser in U.S. politics. McKay's eyes twinkle with warm humor. Morse's gleam with the zeal of a prophet...
...feeling fine and drew guffaws from reporters by boomeranging a bit of Democratic drollery about the health issue. "I might flippantly say," quipped Wilson, "that I'm qualified now to run for some kind of a high office." In a pronouncement recorded for Voice of America broadcasts, British Prophet Arnold (A Study of History) Toynbee admonished his listeners: "Is mankind going to rid itself of two of its three traditional scourges-war and pestilence-only to be done to death by the third scourge, famine? Surely we are not going to be so stupid as that!" With no more...
...Upanishads has met religion after religion and welcomed them all. Buddhism sprang from its loins; Zoroastrians found a haven of tolerance in India; Christianity planted a seed there in apostolic times, perhaps with the coming of Doubting Thomas himself.* Even the first fierce followers of Allah's Prophet Mohammed were allowed to build their mosques and say their prayers in peace among the Hindus...
...Prophet & Savior. Charlie Merrill did not start out to bring Main Street to Wall Street. The son of a Florida country doctor, he spent two years at Amherst College, quit to work for Eastman, Dillon & Co. Later he set up his own firm, then teamed up with Edmund C. Lynch. As an underwriter and investment banker, Merrill Lynch helped set up such big chain-store operations as S.S. Kresge, Grand Union and Safeway Stores. As brokers, Merrill Lynch & Co. also built up a sizable business during the roaring...