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Much of Beaumont's fortune has gone toward promoting his radical views about church reform. "We need a revolution," he says. "We need a revision of the Prayer Book. We need to purge the Gospels of out-of-date accretions and produce an act of worship in modern idiom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mayfair Ministei | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

Between Right & Left. Thousands of Dominicans have family scores to settle with the Trujillos, but the Council knew that mass vengeance would only lead to civil conflict with the still influential and Trujillo-trained military. The worst of Trujillo's thugs will in time be brought to trial, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: The Comeback | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

Petulant Purge. By then, the whole affair was beginning to look more than a little silly. It got even sillier. With straight-faced pride, the Tribune announced that 43 persons had offered to pay for gift subscriptions to the White House. Reporter Wise, presumably under orders, handed Salinger a contraband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Paper Everyone's Talking About | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

Other voices began to be heard. To New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, a Kennedy supporter, it seemed particularly ridiculous that the President should bother to pop off at any segment of a press that has generally been more than kind. ("Never in recent American history has such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Paper Everyone's Talking About | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

"Purgatory" is the second Yeats play, and it is done equally well. This is a return to words alone, an exercise in concentrating enormous action into a handful of lines. The meter is irregular, there is no choral interlude, only the talk of a peddlar and his son standing before...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Three Plays | 4/14/1962 | See Source »

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