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...request of Negro Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones) by a Thai convert to Christianity, another based on an African chant...
...widely at variance with previous conceptions about the sect. Although Jerome claimed that the Nazarenes be lieved in Christ's divinity, the book declares that they regarded Joseph as the natural father of Jesus, whose Passion and death were proof that he was simply a great prophet and righteous man. On the grounds that Jesus himself was an observant Jew, the Nazarenes practiced circumcision, abstained from eating forbidden foods, faced toward Jerusalem when praying, and observed the Sabbath on Saturday instead of Sunday. The Nazarenes refused to celebrate Christmas, which they regarded as a pagan feast...
...tried-and-true Kennedy formula. Brother-in-law Steve Smith mobilized minions and money with customary efficiency. The Senator, when not in Africa, campaigned happily up and down the sidewalks of New York with a dazed-looking Silverman in tow. In a ludicrous attempt to offset Bobby's righteous rhetoric and familial charisma, the opposition made the wild charge that Kennedy opposed Klein because Boss Jones is a Negro. Neither this nor the more reasonable argument that Kennedy had entered the fight merely to increase his influence got very far. The vote last week was 70,771 for Silverman...
David Dubinsky, L.H.D., retired president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. His prophetic fury in a righteous cause is as legendary and as potent as a summer storm, a whirlwind followed by lambent sunshine...
...course," concedes Koningsberger, "people are not free to talk." Nor do "voices of dissent" have a chance. Yes, there is brainwashing, but a nurse and a doctor told him that brainwashing makes an intellectual "happier afterward." Officials can be truculent and exasperatingly self-righteous about their government's policies, but this is "only the wrapping of China...