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...your excellent review of Herbert Agar's book [TIME, Nov. 9] you say: A Time for Greatness suffers from the shortcomings of a sermon. Now just whataells wrong with a sermon...
...somehow "Kings Row" has an appeal that is unique among the ranks of modern heavies. Hitting at some delicate pillars of accepted conduct, the picture has the force of a sermon well organized, and very well delivered. And the background music of Wolfgang Korngold makes the setting fit the earthy tone of the film...
Asked what she thought of the sermon of an outraged parson, Sarah said: "Everybody knows that, having no religious convictions, this man is a comedian. Therefore I consider that he is acting toward me like a disloyal colleague...
...Freedom . . ." Drucker asserts, "is inconceivable outside and before the Christian era. . . . The roots of freedom are in the Sermon on the Mount and in the Epistles of St. Paul. . . . Freedom is responsible choice. . . ." It is never a release and always a responsibility. Alongside this axiom of freedom he sets another: Freedom implies an admission that man is imperfect. Perfect men who know all the answers would have the right and duty to rule absolutely. The men who believe they know all the answers in this age are the "rational liberals." Their sense of their absolute right to put these answers...
Herbert Agar is not afraid to deliver a sermon. A Time for Greatness is a 300-page editorial on democracy that has the fervor and some of the moral reach of the Old Testament prophets. Two quotations set the framework of Agar's thinking...