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...rather understand it as an admission of national imperfection and incompleteness. It is a declaration of internationalism because we know that God loves all men impartially; a confession of sin because we know that only Christ is without sin; a cry of weakness because we know that our nation is not spiritually strong enough to die redemptively; and, withal, a declaration of trust and hope because we believe that (since Christ did die redemptively) God has a mission for us that is within our power to fulfill...
...into Frankfurt, he first kicked up a flurry of newspaper headlines with some strong words about material affairs. "Germany must be given the latest and most powerful weapons as a deterrent to war . . . " he said. France, Graham added, was comparable to "a watch without a mainspring . . . The French just sin and sin, and get weaker...
...plain fact was that the British, not the French, had become the appeasers of Geneva. From Geneva, confidential dispatches went back to the British Cabinet complaining of Bidault's "truculence" toward the Communists, as if that were a sin. "We are the only ones with a policy for Indo-China." the British told newsmen. "Our policy is that we will not fight in Indo-China." They added: "The French should have done what Britain did in India and Burma right after the war. We can't go in now to make it stick. You have to have land...
Suspense novels are meant to transport a man from his drab daily anxieties into a euphoric state of really high-class terror. Most authors in the suspense business used to accomplish this by piling up murder and mayhem, sin and skulduggery with all the subtlety of a meat-ax killer. That style is still widely practiced, but in recent years the suspense formula has become as elastic as a private eye's suspenders. It has often been stretched to include such weighty matters as character, group psychology, politics and sometimes even good writing. Thus a new category was created...
...Tunnel of Love, by Peter De Vries. A punny farce about sin and redemption in suburban Connecticut (TIME...