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...paper also takes stands on personal conduct in everyday life. Ergo reprints each fall a sermon-like article by Wright, for the benefit of incoming freshmen. The article applies libertarian principles to college life, and finds it sadly collectivist: "There is, on university campuses today, a vicious killer loose: a destructive force that can sap the minds and souls of the strongest men. That killer is peer pressure. Do not say that you can value both your ideals and the approval of the group. The group will not have you on such terms--you must adapt to theirs...
...sure I want to go to heaven because there are niggers up there, and that won't be no heaven.' " About 15 minutes after entering, King was escorted out of the building. With the door again closed to him, King proceeded to deliver his own sermon on the church steps...
...increases were rescinded in the wake of mass strikes, the arrest of several thousand rioting workers proved to be yet another government blunder. The subsequent trials of about 100 rioters served to unite workers, intellectuals, students and the still powerful Roman Catholic Church against the regime. In a recent sermon, Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, 75, the revered Primate of Poland, lamented from the pulpit that "it is painful when workers must struggle for their rights from a workers' government...
Blue came to Harvard on a scholarship with the intent of going on to Harvard Law School. "I wanted to be the black Clarence Darrow...I was going to start freeing all the people who didn't belong in jail," he says. Impressed with the sermons he heard at Appleton Chapel and Memorial Church here, Blue decided he might help people from the pulpit, and enrolled in Yale Divinity School. But while preaching a funeral sermon there, Blue realized that the ministry was not his calling. "I suddenly realized what a mystery life is, and that I didn't have...
...woman and between the races. Attack alternates with reconciliation, but it is reconciliation which dominates in the end. "Time Brings About Change" fades into "So Little Time," a plea for universal harmony, followed in turn by "Thank Heaven for You," an old-fashioned love song. Near the end, "Sermon," which prays for an era when Blacks "won't have to fight to keep from fighting," serves as a prelude to "Fighting for Pharoah," which asks the audience to join hands and do some "living for peace...