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During the services, Sydnor baptized a two-month-old girl, took the baby to the President, who rose, unfastened his gold "L.B.J. '64" tie clasp, attached it to the baby's dress. In his sermon, Sydnor said that "perhaps the greatest single need of our world is reconciliation -reconciliation between husband and wife, labor and management, race and race, nation and nation." Afterward, over coffee in the parish hall, the President told Mrs. Sydnor: "The rector must have written that sermon for me. That's the business I'm in, you know, the business of reconciliation...
...such favorite targets as Richelieu (and De Gaulle): "Perfumes are best used to cover up the stinks of cunning. La Gloire de France is a perfume." He is sometimes eccentrically decorative, as when he fondles a favorite word (panache, chryselephantine) or interpolates an essay on ancient music or a sermon on international law. However entertaining, the devices are finally irrelevant and intrusive. Their cumulative effect is as pointless as a sword swallower who decides to eat the hilt first because the paste jewels seem so bright and chewy...
DeGaulle behaves with the same lofty reserve whether at the Opera or the Comedie Francaise, a formal dinner or a private lunch at Colombey, his country estate. Viansson-Ponte also sets down De Gaulle's etiquette as Chief of State (liturgy), his ways of communicating with the public (sermon), and his relations with foreign dignitaries (kinship and rank...
...Retreat. This is what he told the church in his inaugural sermon, in which he also cited the late Dag Hammarskjöld's aphorism: "In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." The time has passed, said Hines, when Christians can retreat within their ecclesiastical for tress to recite prayers and polish brass. "The church is caught up today in the throes of a worldwide convulsion, the basic ferment of which is the thrust for freedom and dignity and hope on the part of the little people of the world. The church...
...coincidence, the President had chosen the same quotation from H Chronicles 1: 10 for the conclusion of his inaugural address. That was appropriate enough, because the speech was really a sermon...