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...also an allegory of Everyman, and many men have tried to adapt it and make it their own. Antinomians tried to make it even more Calvinist than Bunyan himself. Tractarian scribes, trying to bring the Anglican Church closer to Roman Catholic practices, rewrote it to take out the Reformation sting. A Roman Catholic version appeared with the head of the Virgin Mary (the worship of whom was heresy to Baptist Bunyan) on the title page. Now Dr. Harding, a leader of the Jung school in the U.S., reinterprets the 278-year-old parable in terms of modern psychology...
After setting the current school year as the date for full integration, Superintendent Carmichael that year launched with his staff into a public-speaking campaign to explain what he was doing to P.T.A. and civic groups, veterans' organizations and church bodies. To take some of the sting out of integration, he told parents that they could choose whatever school they wanted their children to attend, provided it could accommodate them...
Fast-Blooming Sunflower. To reddish-blond Boy Wonder Hall, his defeat by State Representative Warren Shaw came as a sharp sting. Only a year ago, national columnists were extolling Hall's brand of "Eisenhower Republicanism," his pro-labor veto of a hotly disputed right-to-work bill, his militant demands on behalf of the farmer, his prunings of deadwood in the State House. Fast-blooming Sunflower Fred Hall was a man on the rise...
...possibility of a sensible solution of an anxious question confounded the Communists, who multiply upon the sting of linguistic hatreds, and infiltrate smaller states more easily. "No, no, no!" the Communist M.P.s cried when the outcome was announced. Next day the Communists got some comfort when Gujrati students raged through the squalid streets of the textile center of Ahmedabad demanding a separate Gujarati state, attacking police and politicians in confused skirmishes that cost the city 16 dead...
Time is certainly running out, even for so able a performer as Archie, but if last week's scrap did nothing else, it demon strated that he Still has plenty of sting left, even after the awesome sledgehammering he took from Rocky Marciano last September. Besides netting him a neat $51,975, the Parker fight served no tice that Archie Moore will be no push over when ex-Olympian Floyd Patterson, the hot young (21) pretender, fights him for the official world heavyweight title in September...