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Gloomy Dean Inge found only one thing to be thankful for: "That the hideous hellfire theology is heard no longer in our churches." Today, he said, clergymen are ashamed to use such appeals as did colonial New England's Jonathan Edwards, who warned: "You cannot stand before an infuriated...
General Jonathan Wainwright's statement to the effect that, were he in command in Korea, he would authorize atrocities by Americans similar to those committed by the Reds [TIME, July 24] should make peace-minded Americans thankful he is retired . . .
"Czar Ivan now betook himself ... to an open space in the suburbs [of Great Novgorod] and ordered his men to bring before him all the boyars, commercial magnates, and elders whom they had arrested, together with their wives and.'children; and here, before his eyes [they] were burnt with...
"Many are beginning to think that medically controlled euthanasia for defective infants should be an element in the social policy. I have met mothers of such children who have been thankful when death brought release.
He is still not master of the novel and his characters have a foursquare, surface rightness rather than depth. He can also use some unashamed, sugary, overripe prose: "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were...