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...experience. For the war seems chiefly responsible for the deep interest in people's emotions and behavior that underlies his fiction, his teaching, and his literary criticism. "It was the first big public thing that happened to me," he recalls. "I suppose I'll have to pay for that sin for the rest of my life...
...merely a quaint traditional rite; it sharply points to their conviction that the Christian faith can be accepted only by one who can think and speak for himself.* Similarly, insistence on baptism by immersion, as it is presented in the Bible, fulfills the twin symbolism of washing from sin and of death and rebirth, as well as pointing to the Baptists' conviction that Scripture is the complete and sufficient basis of the Christian faith. Orthodox Christian tradition regards the church as the institution established on earth by Christ to receive continuous revelation, but to Baptists the church is merely...
...rural South they kept right on increasing. They baptized in rivers and creeks and cow ponds. They worshiped in barns and splinterboard churches and held great sin-chasing revivals in tents...
Janus (by Carolyn Green) calls for somewhat faint praise but need not be damned by it. A pleasant enough, light sex farce that brings an American touch of wackiness to a French-style exercise in sin, it concerns the wife of a shipping tycoon and the schoolmaster husband of a librarian. Each summer, while the tycoon is in South America and the librarian apparently buried in the stacks, their spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus...
...Ohio State's hurrying Halfback Howard ("Hopalong") Cassady is not awarded a big block "S" for his vast contributions to Michigan State football, Michigan State's athletic authorities will be guilty of a sin of omission. While the Spartans were taking it easy last week, murdering Marquette 33-0, Hopalong ran wild, led a hopped-up Ohio State squad to an upset 17-0 victory over Michigan's Wolverines. The Buckeyes earned themselves their second Big Teh title in a row, but more important, by beating Michigan they bought Michigan State a ticket to the Rose Bowl...