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...Ernest D. Thompson has been rector at St. Peter's for 22 years. In that time the composition of the parish has changed. Attitudes toward religion have changed, both in the parish and in churches in general. One of the biggest problems facing St. Peter's is the changing attitude towards the function of churches and of organized religion. In St. Peter's it is a battle between the ancients and the moderns, with the rector leading the moderns...
Five years ago, hostile students at England's University of Dundee were brought around by their new rector's inauguration speech. And why not? "It is youth which has rediscovered love and humor as weapons of psychological warfare, which has endorsed biblical simplicity in the face of police dogs," said black-gowned Actor-Writer-Director Peter Ustinov. Recently when 300 of his charges tried to get him sacked after he failed to back them in a rent strike, Ustinov accused them of political chicanery, deceit and cynicism. "I sometimes see England as an enormous nest with lots...
Died. Lord Fisher of Lambeth, 85, former Archbishop of Canterbury; of a stroke; in Sherborne, England. One of ten children born to a Victorian rector, Geoffrey Francis Fisher was crowned the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury-Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world's 42 million-member Anglican Communion-in 1945. He opposed progressive education, took a strong stand against the romance between Princess Margaret and the divorced Peter Townsend, and shocked millions by asserting that man's nuclear destruction might be God's will. Despite his critical attitude toward Roman Catholic dogmatism, Fisher...
...very best, as in The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss can not only enforce sobriety and respect among his readers; he manages to convey some sense of the strengths and well-harnessed passions that underlie the propriety of his WASP characters. There has always been a strain of unintended comedy in this kind of mannerly fiction, however. The habits and rituals of Auchincloss's well-bred people-moneyed Protestants in the backwaters of the Eastern Establishment -are in themselves no more ridiculous than those of other groups. But the author is so solemn about them that when his control...
Supporters of Alexander Dubcek's ill-fated 1968 attempt to give "socialism a human face" in Czechoslovakia are being punished in such numbers that even Western Communists have begun to protest. Last week in the seventh known trial since July 17, former Czech Communist Party College Rector Milan Hübl, 45, and two other men were accused of distributing "provocative printed matter" in order to weaken "the socialist system in the state." That is, they had passed out pamphlets during Czechoslovakia's elections last fall, informing voters of their constitutional right to cross out names...