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Like Philip Schechter, Martin Siegel has a jaundiced view of Reform Judaism. He, too, is 37: the two men, in fact, were classmates at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. There the resemblance ends. Schechter's anger is a howl from the pulpit: Siegel's is a whine from the swimming pool...
...book is stuffed with middleaged, rich-living, highly sexed Americans in Paris, including Harry Gallagher, a 49-year-old liberal film writer who lives (like Jones) on the He St.-Louis in a fabulous apartment decked out with weapons and books, skis and aqualungs, plus a church pulpit for a bar. The generation gap conveniently yawns between Gallagher and his son Hill, a 19-year-old Sorbonne student anarchist. Paris has no real race problem, but Jones has kept in touch with the folks back home. He introduces a beautiful, chocolate-bar-chomping black female teenage destroyer of white domestic...
Gilmore is a Baptist minister. He plans to keep his pulpit while he is sheriff, and he sees the two offices as similar. "I'll just keep on preaching the same old thing. I just won't take the text," he said...
...marked a major step toward joining together what Luther put asunder just 453 years ago. The scholars urged that the Lutheran and Catholic churches recognize each other's authenticity and the validity of each other's Communion (Eucharist). The statement could well pave the way for widespread pulpit sharing and eventually even interCommunion between Lutherans and Catholics...
...pages, to find him in a mood of mild conciliation. "There are signs that history, having made ours a great nation, may now be in the process of unmaking us-unless we can tap some energies for our own renewal." Having damned the Horatio Alger society from the pulpit, Wills ends by taking up a collection for self-improvement...