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Sorokin insisted that a return to the "norms of the Sermon on the Mount" and the practicing of friendship toward all nations would prevent future wars. He denied that such "popular prescriptions" as democracy, education, or religion are sufficient to prevent the "termination of man's history on the planet...
...weeks-Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. Preparing to go to Rome to receive his red hat from the Pope (when he was made cardinal in 1953, he did not dare leave Poland for fear that the Communists would not allow him to return), Wyszynski preached his first sermon since his release from Red imprisonment (TIME, Nov. 12). He did not mention Hungary, but his words held bitter aptness: "We were proud of the soth century. Yet that first half of the century has brought with it such terrible stains on almost all social, political and state organs that...
...editorial alluded to above was written about an incident involving compulsory chapel. It seems Labovitz and another student got up and walked out of the middle of a sermon on the material advantages of church membership. Labovitz says he was then called up by Edward R. Durgin, dean of students, and told that "if you don't like chapel, you shouldn't be at Brown." The Herald wrote an editorial criticizing various aspects of chapel, and they in turn were criticized. "I didn't feel that that was a very just move on the part of the University," William...
Thus, in his 495 documented pages, Levin attempts to relate the criminal folly of Leopold-Loeb to the greatest "crime of our century"-fascism and all the ideologies by which man justifies his crimes. Levin's sermon: if it is true that men are all parts of one another, then some part of every man is pretty terrible...
Despite the difficulty it gives some of the actors, this static way of staging Major Barbara is admirable. It is admirable because Laughton was willing to accept the play for what it is, at once a sermon and exhilirating theater. The director permitted Shaw to speak, enabling the old man to vindicate himself as a comedian--because the play is often very funny--and to prove it possible to make a play out of ideas. Perhaps the highest praise this production can get is that Shaw would have approved...