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...Norman Eddy, of Manhattan's interracial East Harlem Protestant parish: "Our purpose is to offer our prayers to God." "You have come to aid and abet the law violators of this city," the chief shot back. "Go back to your homes. Clear your own cities of sin and violence. Disperse-in the name of decency." Rabbi Richard Israel of Yale University's Hillel Foundation began to read from the Old Testament. Once more the chief asked them to disperse. Then he turned to his police officers, gave a sharp order. "All right, take them to jail." The crowd...
...himself because he can no longer tolerate the discrepancy between how he appears to himself and how he would like to be," 2) a need "to punish the other person who has been so frustrating and has brought him so much hurt," 3) an urge to repent for some sin, and 4) a cry for help-"Please rescue me, don't leave me alone." The best that a college can do for such disturbed students, said Braaten and Darling, is to give them a medical leave of absence for treatment away from the campus, "where at least the psychological...
Hippocrates once said that "a physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician," and the Magi of St. Matthew's Gospel who followed the star to Bethlehem were astrologers. The Roman Catholic Church today condemns serious belief in astrology as a grave sin; but as a man of his time, the great St. Thomas Aquinas held that "the celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world." Among modern believers, the worst advertisement is Adolf Hitler, who had five astrologers charting a course for him. Perhaps the most...
...also a town that honors its traditions without becoming mired in them. "The besetting sin of the South is worship of the South," says William Hartsfield, mayor of Atlanta from 1937 through 1961. "Strangely, many people in the South today worship the day that Margaret Mitchell said was gone with the wind. I say 'strangely' because few of them participated in those days. So many speak of magnolias and beautiful ladies and soft nights, and so many of them had only hookworm and poverty. We in Atlanta have been moving and getting somewhere over the years...
Charity has long been a broad, well-traveled bridge over which the Outs have made their way toward the Ins. For one thing, a Good Cause helps adjust the American conscience to the sin of pleasure; Boston's Old Guard ladies still meet to gossip in "Sewing Circles," though the original pretense, sewing for the poor, has long since been abandoned. There are more modern advantages in having an eleemosynary excuse for an enchanted evening: 1) costs are tax-exempt contributions, and 2) the socially ambitious will write big checks and work furiously for the chance to rub elbows...