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Defenders of charismatic worship argue that there is Biblical warrant for it. Prophecy was an accepted spiritual gift among the Jews, while both Jesus and his disciples, according to the New Testament, practiced faith healing. St. Paul's epistles refer to "speaking in tongues"-which to its modern practitioners means the sudden effusion of prayer in nonsense syllables...
...office three times to denounce him as a "traitor" to his country. To win in Viet Nam, Alsop is even willing to use what he calls "Mr. Big"-the atom bomb-Miller says. "Friends call the Alsop manner imperial," sums up Miller; "enemies, when they are being kind, refer to it as arrogant...
Above all I refer to the violence with which these issues seem irretrievably bound up and to the headlong frenzy with which our country pursues its ambiguous destiny...
...also dangerous business. The pilots of the 432nd wryly refer to themselves as "conscientious objectors who like airplanes and photography," but their war is as risky as any other airman's in Viet Nam. Over the past year, the wing has lost the equivalent of a squadron - 20 Phantoms. One crew out of seven can expect to be shot down during its tour of duty, for recon missions, unlike the swift, darting thrusts of fighter-bomber strikes, often require four to five minutes of straight and level cruising at low altitude...
Barbara Castle's job is to convince them-or at least see that they hew the line. She can refer violators to the Prices and Incomes Board, which can revoke and fine them, but plans to use discipline only "in the nature of reserve powers." Instead, she has already announced her own positive "interventionist", policy, inviting unions to negotiate wage increases of any size-as long as they are based on equal gains in productivity. She was quick to applaud just that kind of an agreement recently (even though it will boost some wages 46% over three years) between...