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...four corners who had gathered in Evanston, Ill. Yet more and more people expected help-on earth-from Christianity. Every week, in pulpits, editorials, Parliaments and Chancelleries, in universities, clinics and at cocktail parties, Christianity is invoked. Juvenile delinquency? Broken homes? Neuroses? "The answer is a sound Chris tian upbringing." High divorce rate? Alcoholism? Disintegrating ethics? "We need a firm Christian morality." Is science getting out of hand? Are art and literature aimless? "Christianity gives the only aim." Communism? "Only Christianity can defeat a false religion." A more complex, highbrow version of this mood is expressed by British Historian Arnold...
...have to sense the imperceptible and yet real shifting of the center of gravity from the Christian nations to the non-Christian world . . . So-called Chris tian civilization finds itself in disintegration . . . Christian nations have failed to carry out, in time, the indispensable, long-awaited social adaptations . . . and to assist other nations in their struggle against misery, poverty and ignorance...
...that reason it was easy to dismiss Hromadka's speech as the melancholy result of peaceful coexistence and a sharpened sense of doom. Nonetheless, his warnings, did constitute a challenge. In the U.S., it was a good week to look for some answers. Hundreds of Chris tian churchmen from all over the world were meeting in half a dozen U.S. cities to discuss the condition of their faith (see below). The World Council of Churches was preparing for next week's big meeting at Evanston, Ill., whose theme is "Christ the Hope of the World...
...journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative at San Sebas tian, Calif, grows out of a discussion in 1932 among a group of unemployed living in shanties they have made of sewer pipes. A one-time prosperous publicity agent, a ruined broker, a "wobbly," a Texas farmer pool their potential resources and, after a meeting, get enough supplies on credit to start work...
...good way for sons of musicians to occupy their time and bring the family kudos is to be prodigious. Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a harpsichordist at three, a composer at four. Ludwig van Beethoven fiddled at five; Johann Sebas tian Bach permitted himself, a small moppet, to be discovered poring over music at night in the garret. But Bob and Ted Maier, five-and six-year-old sons of Guy Maier, who was Lee Pattison's two-piano partner until last March (TIME, March 2), are no altruistic prodigies. They compose and write lyrics only when bribed...