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...many churchmen, the Christ that must be preached to this century was defined by Bonhoeffer: "The man existing for others." The Jesus for now is not so much the Son of God but the Son of Man, not so much the risen Lord of Easter as the suffering servant who agonized in near despair on the Cross, who died that the world might live. The Jesus for now is the Jesus of preaching and of the Passion...
...also platitudinous; surely no one reading that "there is a profound causal relationship between the height of a man's ambition and the depth of a man's fall" will thrill at the keenness of the insight. The Hammarskjold revealed by observations like this is still the conscientious public servant that we have always seen...
Controversial Cop Sir: When J. Edgar Hoover, a public servant, publicly sympathizes with Walter Jenkins, insults a leading citizen, berates a Government agency and vilifies our highest court [Nov. 27], then, sir, his public usefulness has come...
...Charmingly Square." Like Civil Servant Lewis Eliot, fictional hero of his series of novels, Snow was born "shabby genteel, really, just a cut above the working class." Their careers have run parallel for two decades, and Snow's newest book, Corridors of Power, makes the coincidence even closer...
...Martha in the mid-1930s, she is a 15-year-old rationalist who contemptuously understands everything about her parents except how they got that way. Yet by her early 20s, she herself is, by what seems at the time her own choice, the wife of a standard-model civil servant and the mother of a conventional child. Although she has "views"-she disbelieves vaguely in the color bar-she is accepted placidly by colonial suburbia. Then she discovers that she feels as if she were going mad. Older wives smile kindly and say, Yes, that's right, everyone feels...