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...Reverend John Safran (rhymes with saffron) looked down upon the 500 pupils and parents of Michigan's Marysville High School assembled for his baccalaureate sermon-and pitched...
...Sunday, for the first time in weeks, the President strolled leisurely over to the First Baptist Church at 16th and O Streets, enjoying the 15-minute walk in the bright morning sunshine. The sermon topic: "America's Peril." In the cool of the evening he drove to the Lincoln Memorial in an open touring car, heard the National Symphony Orchestra play a presidential request number (Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik) from a barge anchored in the Potomac...
...conclusion is the most original part of Companions of the Left Hand, also the most dubious. From one angle it reads like a sermon on the fatal rigidity of the Communist mind, from another like a bright red Sermon on the Mount. Novelist Tabori's own views are obviously far to the left, although he denies that he is a member of any party. Whatever his politics, he has written one of the season's most striking novels...
Over the years, most of the Hawthorne irony has worn thin; the Hawthorne moralizing and allegorizing now have the force of a Sunday school sermon; the famed Hawthorne style, once so eloquent and orotund, now seems merely archaic and rhetorical ("My father, wherefore didst thou inflict this miserable doom upon thy child?"). But the dark Hawthorne themes of sin and retribution are still absorbing, and more absorbing yet is the mystery of the obsessed, lonely New Englander turning them over & over in his mind...
...bewildered-Freshmen" editorial would obviously miss the mark in such circumstances. Coddling has never been a policy around the Square, and two terms' experience with veterans has made it even more patently unnecessary. Whether "old" or "new," the undergraduate these days needs a frank orientation, not a big-brotherly sermon...