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...years, Bob Jones University has demonstrated that it is possible to take the enthusiasm of a religious revival, transfer it to a campus, and sustain it without missing a beat. The school was founded in 1927 when Bob Jones Sr., a veteran evangelist, decided that the "sawdust aisle" of the camp meeting was really just the beginning of a Christian education. With $25,000 in contributions and savings, he set up a college designed to be "uncompromisingly orthodox and definitely and spiritually evangelistic . . . to witness for and win people to the Lord Jesus Christ." He had 88 students...
...equipped movie & television studios between New York and Hollywood. Students may major in biology, business administration or cinema, get graduate degrees in fine arts. None of this modernity, however, implies a compromise with religion. Says Bob Jones Sr.: "They say we have laid down the red carpet on the sawdust aisle. What of it? You'll still find Jesus on the sawdust aisle...
Cecil B. DeMille, movie master of the super-colossal, has taken on a subject which is already super-colossal, and the result just goes to prove you can only do so much with sawdust and stable smells...
...plot is simply incredible--something about a girl aerialist who, when spurned by her sawdust impressario for a sick hippo, falls head over heels in love with a daring young man who falls head over heels off his 60 foot trapeze and does a triple somersault into the hospital...
...army soldiers at Katyn. It was night time, he said, and the victims were led two by two to the edge of a huge ditch illuminated by floodlights. "First," he continued, "they tied the [victim's] hands together and then tilted the head back, and they packed sawdust into the victim's mouth. If he showed signs of collapsing while in their hands, they just kicked him into the ditch. And those who showed signs of resistance, or resisted this procedure-then the guard would put a gun to his head . . . and he shot him. Then he would...