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From a guest pulpit in the New York Herald Tribune, Author William Saroyan, a longtime tax-impelled expatriate, unburdened himself of a sermon on the sins of the U.S. theater. Among his targets: "fishy" audiences ("The real people almost never get to the theater"), captious critics ("If they were reviewing the world, the show would close after two performances"), and that revered Broadway training ground, the Actors' Studio ("The supreme achievement at this new church is to divorce from any of its members even the faintest condition of peopleness"). The gist of Saroyan's complaint: "Everybody is kind...
...bestirs itself to launch a crusade, e.g., the World-Telegram's recent series on slum landlords and university-student cheating. But such enterprise is rare. More characteristic is the Post's current serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's famed igth century sermon on the evils of segregation. When Publisher Schiff proposed this Civil War Centennial treat for Post readers, Editor James Wechsler was ecstatic. "Why," said Wechsler, "Uncle Tom emerges as a prototype of Martin Luther King...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's brilliant, flawed examination-part sermon, part satire-of Rome's café society...
...President delivered the traditional sermon at the Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 1961 in Memorial Church. He told the gathering of 604 that religion cannot be viewed "as an enterprise which in any way counsels withdrawal from life. Rather we should regard it as both an aid and a present necessity...
Radcliffe's Baccalaureate sermon will be given by Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Church. At Commencement Wednesday morning in the Radcliffe Yard, Charles E. Bohlen '27, special assistant to the Secretary of State, will speak...