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Author Fielding is bent on proving that it is better to have loved and lost, like John, than always to win, like David. A handsome, if somewhat tarnished ornament of the Anglican clergy, David believes in the laying on of hands, at least with female communicants. But David's...
Periodic writing assignments, supplemented by intelligent and detailed criticism of each piece, serve to maintain student engagement in the material of the course while it is going on. Frequent short papers give the student an opportunity to hit his stride, and early grades are often discounted when his record shows...
Turning to the present, Niebuhr made two observations on the "scientific age, thrusting into nature." His first point was that modern technology has given as the potentiality of uniting into a "world community." He said men now have the opportunity to "purge themselves of European Parochialism," and "implement Christian universalism...
Through the centuries, the rulers of Russia, czar and commissar alike, have made sporadic attempts to stamp out the small but stubbornly burning flame of Russian Jewish culture. No man came closer to succeeding than Joseph Stalin. In 1948, the birth of Israel stirred up Stalin's lifelong suspicion...
Died. William Zebulon Foster, 80, mild-mannered, iron-willed chairman of the U.S. Communist Party from 1932 to 1957; following a series of strokes; in Moscow, where he had been under treatment since January. A Massachusetts-born Irishman whose outstanding talent _was for survival, Foster went to work in a...