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...canny and cantankerous that not only farmers but everybody else chuckle at his antics-the rather stirring antics of a tough old man practicing as well as preaching a primitive American philosophy: that use of the soil is a privilege, not a right, and that its misuse is a sin. The book also tells more about the fundamentals of farming than you can find in most back-to-the-land books...
...while it is a shame and sin...
...righteousness and the inviolability of faith as between nation and nation," the 1942 message said "we do not disclaim our own share in the events . . . which made it possible for these evil forces to be released," and urged that, "conscious, of our participation in the world's sin, we would be humble and penitent before God . . . and become His instruments for fashioning a free, just and neighborly world...
...Nation (James Russell Lowell's great hymn), America and Battle Hymn of the Republic. The sermon was militant: Rector Welles asked God's pardon for past shortcomings, asked power for the task of victory, asked for peace by God's help. He preached the "sin of international irresponsibility": "We have passed by on the other side when we have seen other nations in need or peril, or we have given them aid at the end of a 3,000-mile pole, fearful of involving ourselves in danger...
Catholics struck hard last week at Greta Garbo's new film, Two-Faced Woman.* The Legion of Decency condemned it as "immoral and indecent," and Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York had his pastors tell their Sunday congregations that it is "an occasion of sin and . . .dangerous to public morals." Other bishops followed suit, and censors in strongly Catholic Boston and Providence banned...