Word: seemly
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Ever since 13 Jews sat together at the Last Supper, in the historic dawn of a new church, the conversion of the Jews has been Christianity's hope, but there have been few signs of fulfillment. Now some Protestants seem to be launching a new movement to proselytize the Jews, reports Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg in the Christian Century. But, warns Hertzberg, it will not work, and should not be tried...
...leading proponent of Jewish conversion, Presbyterian Minister George E. Sweazey (TIME, May 4), argues that Jews are ripe to become Christians because "many Jews in America scarcely have a religion" and that "even those who cherish a strong sense of the Judaic tradition often seem to hold it as a sort of super-intense patriotism." Conservative Rabbi Hertzberg (of Temple Emanu-El, Englewood, N.J.) denies both these statements. American Jews may be losing their identity as an ethnic minority, but the percentage affiliated with synagogues has risen strikingly. Many of the new members seek togetherness rather than real religion...
DEODORANTS. "Camera shots or angles which show or almost show the human armpit seem especially distasteful...
...Coach Graham tried to take the debacle in stride; come what may, he is planning to spend the next 20 years at the academy, and the academy is planning to have him. "I'm not worried," said Graham in the dressing room after the game. "Did I seem worried? I wasn't a bit nervous...
...Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) will acquire Lolita's gilt by association. The first book Nabokov wrote in English (his workshop was the bathroom of his one-room Paris flat), Sebastian Knight has a low sex quotient and no nymphets. Instead, it is devoted to themes that novelists seem to be born with: the question of identity, the nature of reality, the task of the writer. Nabokov's treatment of these themes is idiomorphic; his form is flashingly and immutably his own. He is a Pirandellphic oracle in that he sees life as just one damned trap door...