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...Roman Catholics in their statements of the nature of God and of man, and of the meaning of the act of faith. However, they lay the main emphasis of their teaching on sin, which in its turn throws the whole structure of Protestant popular devotion out of gear . . . This results in the placing of eucharistic devotion to one side, in the periphery of devotion and as a practical result, Protestant services become drab and lacking in all life and color...
Said Sullivan: "Your action ... so far as I know, represents the first attempt ever made in this country to prevent the development of a powerful weapon. The conviction that this will result in a renewed effort to abolish the Marine Corps, and to transfer all naval and Marine aviation elsewhere, adds to my anxiety...
...attention to the railroad's complaint that the town only gave it $15 worth of passenger business a month. "We don't want to be just another little place like Punkin Center or Bug Scuffle," he cried, and called the city commission into special session. The result: an ordinance which would have forced trains to crawl through town at no more than 15 m.p.h., ring their bells (but not blow their whistles), with a stop for "sanitary inspections" whenever the mayor ordered...
Then his inquisitors got tougher. His former fellow academician, K. V. Ostrovityanov, warned: "You must know from the history of our party what grave consequences result from stubborn insistence on one's own errors . . ." Finally, last week, like hundreds of other Soviet intellectuals, Varga decided, things being as they are, it was time to retract. Admitting that he had not "acted cleverly," he dutifully sent in his recantation, for the current issue of Questions of Economics. It sounded familiar-almost as though the Russians now had printed forms for these occasions. Wrote Varga: "I formed a whole chain...
Although, with the new wording, the instructor himself would be responsible for "communist teachings" and schools would no longer be liable to loss of their tax exemptions, the purpose and result of the measure remain the same. The important point is that the state would have the power to say who would teach and what should be taught in private educational institutions. A sleuth in a classroom is a threat to academic freedom whether he is compiling "evidence" against a school or an individual professor...