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Newbigin discussed two of the three aspects of the "total event of Christ"--the doctrines of Creation and of Sin. Discussion of the third, the doctrine of Election, concerning the condition of Christian unity, was postponed last night because of time considerations and will precede tonight's lecture
...only thing a Graham Greene hero can be sure of is that, morally speaking, he will not get something for nothing. In such superb serious novels as The Power and the Glory and The Heart of the Matter, sin leads the man up to the brink of damnation, but there the moral bargain is struck, and in exchange for inner pain and penance he gets at least a peek at the way to salvation. Greene likes to separate these serious novels from the lighter ones, which he calls "entertainments." In these (This Gun for Hire, The Ministry of Fear...
...slipping in a cruel, pointless caricature of a dumb U.S. businessman, or an unlikely scene in a top-secret conference, at which Wormold's secretary sprays the green baize with Greene bitterness. Such interludes damage the "entertainment," but they cannot really spoil the unique formula of suspense plus sin...
Thrown out of Russia last week: Associated Press Correspondent Roy Essoyan, 39, the fourth American to be expelled since April 1956. Essoyan's official sin: "A rude violation of Soviet censorship." Best A.P. guess was that the "violation" was Essoyan's dispatch in August saying that Khrushchev's proposal to refer the Mideast crisis to the U.N. was a "major retreat...
...woke up in this world of sin, Heaven be praised, it was raining...