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...religious book-of-the-year was published last week, and it puts sin right back in the spotlight. Its author: Union Seminary's Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, high priest of Protestantism's young intellectuals. Its title: The Nature and Destiny of Man: Volume I (Scribner; $2.75). Its significance: that America's most influential theologian is reversing the optimistic and rationalistic trend of Christian liberalism to lead his legions back to an almost medieval emphasis on the basic sinfulness...
...another question, for Dr. Niebuhr belligerently repudiates liberalism's "pathetic eagerness" to justify itself to the modern mind. He foresees the unpopularity of his dogma, concedes that little short of world catastrophe can make Babbitt think of himself as a sinner or worry about the problem of sin...
...reform. "We note the tendency to delegate our responsibility to large corporate bodies which of their very nature must be at least partly irresponsible-corporations in which we hold stock, the nation to which we belong, groups in which we hold membership, and even the Church itself. To the sin of pride we add the sin of evasion...
Once you start listening to Waller's records, you can't get enough, so I'd like to suggest several which impress me as being representative of Fats at his best. Sweet and Slow (1934 vintage), Big Chief De Sota and It's A Sin To Tell A Lie (You can imagine what Fats does to the latter), My Mommie Sent Me to the Store, and finally Send Me Jackson. (The last two have exceptional Cedric choruses...
Though granting that sin still lurked in such "adjuncts of the devil's back yard" and "citadels of hell" as Michigan's drink spots, godly, 81-year-old retiring Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, addressing an exaugural message to the State Legislature, drew the Legislature's attention (and Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner's) to the fact that "God Almighty has a place and power in Michigan's State administration as never before...