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...does not "necessarily apply." Only about two-thirds of the nation's 3,587,000 Episcopalians have gone through the ceremony of confirmation, in which they testify to their belief before a bishop and receive the laying on of hands. Few priests would ever refuse Communion to a stranger,*although most churches will not allow uncon firmed members to assume lay offices...
...pass a law that will make me like you or you like me." For the Senator's information, there already are such laws on the statute books of man: "And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Lev. 19:18) and "Love ye therefore the stranger" (Deut...
...thunderous Nagare wall. They smash one another over the head with wooden poles, shouting noises of guttural rage, bobbing, feinting, taking clever steps backward and occasionally falling by accident into the water. You can try on a Panamanian straw hat, test a Nicaraguan wooden spear, and talk to a stranger in California while you stare into his eyes on television-telephone. Alaskan Chilkat Indians will tell you how to make totem poles: start by floating the log in a lake until it steadies, then split off the upper third, since that is where the most knots...
...intelligence agent who sets up the betrayal of the hero's mistress so that another part of the plot can thicken. Though nearly 150,000 copies of Spy Who Came in have been sold in the U.S. alone, very few readers will know George Smiley from any other stranger who hurries by in a dark street with his hat pulled low. But Smiley has quite a dossier...
Whey the Board of Regents banned A Stranger Knocks is especially puzzling since they at the same time allow the glandular fudge of Times Square sexfilms and explicit nudity, nymphomania, and autoeroticism in art films like The Silence. If there must be frankness of sex, it is the kind in A Stranger Knocks that should be encouraged...