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Recalling your issue of March 13, under "Capitol Prayers," on p. 40, you hinted that Shera was a funny name, which I resent, for while Shera is not an ordinary name, it is unusal, and different. My greatgrandfather was named James Shera and I have a freind named Mrs. Montgomery, and I think they are both nice names. I am 11 yrs. old I am in junior high school, and I like to read TIME because I like it very much...
Many thousands of us, your readers, are over 83 and resent the suggestion that we are dead or better dead. . . . Beginning tomorrow, I intend to picket TIME with a board saying "TIME is Unfair to Octogenarians...
...play) was preaching away from Nazareth. Theme of the play is Jesus' own saying: "A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house." Only Mary (glowingly played by Judith Anderson) has faith in Jesus: His brothers resent Him as a fanatic who hurts their business, their marriage prospects, and the family name...
...little wonder then that townspeople are likely to resent the criticism of their governments by gownpeople. True, college faculty members are not guilty of the same outrages students have perpetrated in the past. But the impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...
Altho.ugh the Doukhobors, a Russian reli gious sect, are usually thrifty and peace-loving, eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco, their conscientious clashes with the Government have been numerous, made fine headlines. They resent provincial schools so much that they sometimes burn them. Believers in going naked, they occasionally scandalize their neighbors by bare-skin parades protesting against the Government...