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...asked that the campaign of 1962 not repeat the experience of 1960 where "the only issue is who is less dishonest than the other." He stated that both parties were against corruption, and called for everyone to "assume that all candidates are against sin; let us campaign on issues...
...before a gutted house. The talk shimmers with movement and tension: we watch the house become alive with terrible memories. The peddlar has killed his own father in this very house, and a family cannot purge itself of a crime its blood passes on. Each generation reenacts a family sin until the last measure of evil is payed out. Having killed his father, the peddlar now kills his son, perhaps to set his mother's ghost to rest. David Gullette is the peddlar, the ruined and driven old murderer: his is a sly and yet dignified performance. And Harry Smith...
...fever and flames of controversy upon every firmament at this good hour ... I will not charge my conscience with any act or deed which would contribute to the foundering of the United Nations, because I do not know how I would then be able to expiate that sin of commission to my grandchildren." The lopsided Senate vote improves the prospects for the measure in the House...
...Calvin's influence on John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, made him an architect of the Kirk's bulwark against the papacy. In 1647, Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly wed their church to a Confession of Faith that described the Pope as "AntiChrist, man of sin, son of perdition." The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1960 visit to Pope John tested the ground for all Protestantism, and last May a resolution was put before the Kirk's General Assembly that the Moderator-"when in Rome"-should call on the Pope...
...Professor Stanislaus Fodorski. Ray Bolger is as ineptly endearing as sin at the Southern Baptist Institute of Technology, where he goes to teach engineering. To drill a little knowledge into the classroom cementheads he adopts football lingo. Chorus the enlightened mastodons of the monosyllable: "It's fun to think." Soon Fodorski gets a chance to apply his Archimedean magic to the great gridironic decisions of educational life, like defeating S.B.I.T.'s football rival. Texas Mohammedan. Fodorski's human pinwheel and pyramidal enemy line-scaling plays make him "All-American coach of the year" and. together with...