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Ever since the first claps of atomic thunder sounded two years ago, some Christians have been poring over the Book of Revelation, searching for portents and parallels. "Apocalyptic" has become an easy and much overworked word. But to theologians, the possibility-and perhaps imminence-of the world's destruction poses a number of grave questions." In the current issue of the Reinhold Niebuhr-edited quarterly, Christianity & Society, two U.S. theologians struggle with some of these questions. Writes Religion Professor W. Burnet Easton Jr. of Lawrence College...
...give you promptly and in good time the decisions which are necessary. . . ." He promised to "attack restrictive practices of all kinds." What the British wanted to know was how he planned to do that. Even his best wishers could not pretend that Churchill had offered anything but highly generalized thunder...
...What the Thunder Said. Gromyko is a success. A U.N. diplomat calls him "one of Molotov's pet chickens." Russian newspapers nowadays report at length what and how Gromyko "thundered" in the Security Council (Grom means thunder in Russian). The papers used to print the thunderer's name in small 7-pt. type, but things changed after his first vetoes. By the eighth, his name had grown to 14-pt. headlines; then it went to 18-pt. and after the tenth to 27-pt. (which, for Russia, is the works). Nevertheless, the Russian press still does not run his picture...
...more parties-at the presidential palace, at the town hall, at the Foreign Office. And would Argentina's President Perón join his wife in Rio? Firmly the Brazilians said no. "He wouldn't be fool enough to try to steal some of Truman's thunder...
...Einem's orchestral onslaught on dictatorship. What was left unsaid by the orchestra was sung by the chorus, which Einem employed as Mussorgsky did in Boris Godunov, as the real protagonist of the drama. There were few arias, and most of them were drowned in the dissonant thunder from...