Word: skepticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play of Ross's current Ibsen cycle, Anne Meacham made a formidable Hedda Gabler; Leueen MacGrath is a lightweight Mrs. Alving. Ibsen's Mrs. Alving is scoured to self-knowledge by the harsh uses of life; Actress MacGrath's Mrs. Alving is so much the sophisticated skeptic that events merely seem to confirm her suspicions. Modernity also mars Staats Cotsworth's Pastor Manders. He plays the hypocrite, but he is not, as Ibsen intended, a pious hypocrite...
...Cold in the Sea. Even Frenchmen, traditionally set in their views, whether Catholic, Protestant or skeptic, are giving a hearing to the young Americans who come to call. In the southern industrial city of Nimes (pop. 90,000), Craig Colton, 22, of Los Angeles and Gary Harris, 20, of Taber, Alberta talk with 50 to 100 people...
Bishop Kennedy says, "It all sounds so spiritual and satisfying until a skeptic begins to think of all the administration involved." Perhaps Kennedy and others would like to study the scriptural system in use by Churches of Christ (not United). Each congregation is self-governing, under its own group of bishops (elders), just as in New Testament times. It should be the constant prayer of all Christians that the unity of Christ's church be upheld: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism . . ."* Our present pluralism is not only weakness but unscriptural...
...ecumaniacs"-as Kennedy calls the extreme partisans of the ecumenical movement-overlook the fact that the bigger the church, the more ponderous the machinery. "It all sounds so spiritual and satisfying until a skeptic begins to think of all the administration involved. Then my feet get chilled. Let us face it: the only way an ecclesiastical institution the size of the Roman Catholic Church can function effectively is to be authoritarian. Is this our goal...
Birth-control advocates insist that unless drastic measures are taken now, India's population will totally outstrip its national resources by 1985; in Punjab, for example, land holdings are already officially limited to 30 acres. Even Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, once a skeptic on the subject, now agrees. Boasts Nehru: "There is more talk and action on birth control in India officially than in any other country." As if to back up his claim, the Indian government last week announced that the current sterilization campaign is only the beginning. It figures that if 2,150,000 Indians were sterilized...