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...strong-arm methods-as many another tyrant has learned-are not always the worst thing a religion has to fear. Warned 16-year-long China Missionary Samuel E. Boyle: "The danger now facing the Chinese churches is not that of physical persecution. The real peril is spiritual -in yielding to the temptation to accept half-slavery...
...front lines in a mud-spattered jeep, toting a carbine (he is an even better shot than most marines). Some marines claim that Eddie Craig has steel wool instead of hair on his chest and a 40-mm. gun barrel for a backbone. But he is no military tyrant. Like many another Marine Corps officer, Craig believes that the welfare of enlisted men comes first. On Bougainville (which rhymes, in marine parlance, with Hoganville), officers slept in foxholes if the men slept in foxholes, ate whatever rations the men ate. On postwar Guam, although the roof leaked in Craig...
...script, huffing & puffing to find excuses for these athletic feats, tells an opéra-bouffe story involving Lancaster's "free men of the mountains," a foreign tyrant (Frank Allenby), and a fair lady (Virginia Mayo). Happily, their contrived heroics are spiked with some unconscious comedy...
...Smith, there is something faintly "unAmerican" about making collective society so all-important. To him, the most important aspect of education is "just that intellectual and moral development of the person as a person which these educators believe is now outmoded." But Smith also found another tyrant besides society: science. According to modern educational dogma, science should be the final test of all action; all things outside it-"man's ingrained habit of setting up ethical and moral ideals, his belief that his own life must mean something and that the universe should 'make sense'"-are "prejudices...
...play opens on the Golden Wedding Anniversary celebration of Thomas and Emily Chanler in the drawing room of their Back Bay home. The gathering relatives give the impression that the Chanlers have been an exceedingly happy couple but that Thomas Chanler is something of a benevolent tyrant who at 70 still dictates the personal as well as business affairs of his large family. The time is then 1939, and for the remainder of the evening "I Know My Love" shuttles back and forth through the years of the Chanler's married life--1888, 1902, 1918, and 1920--to reveal that...