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...Lutheran who became a Congregationalist-even turns into something of a devil's advocate. Speaking disapprovingly of the widespread disbelief in God's opponent, the novelist observes: "We have become, in our Protestantism, more virtuous than the myths that taught us virtue; we judge them barbaric. We resist the bloody legalities of the Redemption; we face Judgment Day, in our hearts, much as young radicals face the mundane courts-convinced that acquittal is the one just verdict. We judge our Judge . . . incidentally reducing his 'ancient foe' to the dimensions of a bad comic strip...
...White House had attempted to get him to take on Caulfield in a sensitive IRS top job, and that Thrower had refused. Walters had a "No comment" on Dean's story. Present IRS Commissioner Donald C. Alexander, who has had the job only since May 17, promised to resist any attempts to use the IRS for political purposes. Dean's testimony also set in motion an investigation by the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, chaired by the formidable Wilbur Mills. The IRS has launched a probe to find out who authorized the audits of Gibbons and Greene...
...grandfather had been a circuit-riding Methodist parson and his father a Kansas homesteader and schoolteacher. Browder began as a good capitalist apparatchik-a department store cashboy at the age of nine. He joined the fledgling party in the early 1920s after serving two jail sentences for "conspiring" to resist the draft during World War I. An active trade-union organizer, he was sent by the party to Moscow and China as a union delegate. Upon his return in 1929, he was named party chief when the two leading factions were split...
Nonprofessionals, too, apparently cannot resist the urge to take playful potshots at Watergate. Six-term Missouri Democratic Congressman William...
...lucky, editorials like "Bunk" will get you jobs like Ziegler's. You have to know something to write for the Real Paper, the Washington Post, or Resist. John Womack, Jr. Professor of History