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...might as well slap a grocery-store trading stamp on my Christmas greeting-card envelope as disgrace it with that utterly tasteless, uninspired label offered...
Last June, alarmed at the cautiously nonfundamentalist approach of a book called The Message of Genesis by Baptist Ralph Elliott, the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the church's faith in "the entire Bible as the authoritative, authentic, infallible Word of God" and urged seminaries to stamp out "theological views which would undermine such faith in the historical accuracy and doctrinal integrity of the Bible." A fortnight ago, carrying out that mandate, the trustees of Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary "reluctantly and regretfully" fired Ralph Elliott from his professorship there...
...twelve-member Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee turned down six suggestions from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The committee had no esthetic objection to a stamp that would show a green wreath hanging from a white suburban door, but the block of white would foul up every color-sensitized Mark II Facer-Canceler in the country. Nor did the committee have artistic reservations about a cluster of pajamaed tots ogling their loot spread out under a Christmas tree; the design simply had too much detail for reproduction. Finally a Post Office illustrator offered the winning design-a wreath adorned...
...Monday after Thanksgiving, this sticky doggerel to the tune of Jingle, Bells will introduce TV viewers to the nation's first official Christmas stamp. The stamp is meant not only to encourage all Americans to spend 4;? in postage for their avalanche of Christmas cards (rather than the still permissible 3? for unsealed envelopes), but also "to supply a colorful fillip" to the greeting business. As usual, the bureaucrats did not consider that good and original design-or even the tiniest hint that Christmas is, after all, Christ's birthday-might be a necessary ingredient, fillip-wise...
...film's Billy Budd is Terence Stamp, 23, son of a Thames tugboat man. His Michelangelic good looks and country-boy smile make Billy's unaffected virtue believable where a better-known actor might have failed. As Captain Vere, Peter Ustinov shuns mawkishness in his role of naval Pilate; he reveals Vere's humanity subtly, and when Billy's wonderful and cruel farewell rings out, Vere stands destroyed by what he has had to do. Robert Ryan is the terrible Mister Claggart who presides so zealously at floggings: once, after counting out ten lashes while...