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...without historical precedent. Segregationists of the U.S. South often quote the Book of Genesis 9:25, which relates that Canaan, the son of Ham-whose skin was believed to be black-is ac cursed throughout time: "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." The 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume suspected "Negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites." Several U.S. Presidents, among them Jefferson and Lincoln, shared the same opinion, at least for a while. As long as the two races lived together, said Lincoln in 1858, "there must be the position of superior and inferior...
...hero, Gog, is a giant washed ashore naked on the Scottish coast near Edinburgh just after V-E day. Gog has no memory, and the only clues to his identity are tattoos on the back of his left and right hands reading Gog and Magog-the names of two giant wooden figures in the City of London.* The novel, fable or parable tells the story of Gog's pilgrimage from Edinburgh to London in quest of himself...
Silence! He was thus a very American Catholic theologian. Born on Manhattan's 19th Street to a Scottish-born lawyer father and an Irish mother, both of whom were Catholics, the boy had shown an interest in medicine as a profession. But he joined the Jesuits at 16, and after earning an M.A. at Boston College, spent three years teaching in the Philippines. Then there was more study-four years of theology at the Jesuits' Woodstock College in Maryland, four years of graduate theology at the Gregorian University in Rome-before returning to Woodstock as professor of theology...
King of Hearts. Provincial France. World War I. Retreating Germans plant a time bomb in a town square, preparing to explode it at midnight when Allied troops arrive. To foil the Boche plan, a Scottish regiment sends in a wide-eyed private (Alan Bates), who finds the town empty save for the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Spilling out of their bin and into the town, they find an abandoned circus with enough period costumes to outfit nine road companies of Marat-Sade...
What happened was this. The Presbyterian Church in May completed a nine-year process of revising its confessional standards. Under the American equivalent of the Scottish Barrier Act (which guards against hasty ecclesiastical legislation by requiring that changes in church law be approved by a General Assembly, then be sent down to the presbyterians for their approval, and finally be approved by the next annual General Assembly), what is called "The Confession of 1967" was presented to the General Assembly meeting in Boston in May, 1966. It included a phrase that urged the pursuit of peace, "even at risk...