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Luther himself was not opposed to monasteries, Kreinheder argues, and church tradition clearly authorizes marriage and celibacy as valid Christian vocations. Today, however, the Lutheran called to celibacy "has the choice of living his life out in solitude and loneliness as a bachelor, or becoming a Catholic or Anglican monk." Kreinheder blames "my own inexperience and my own inadequacy" for St. Augustine's slow start. "I don't say that I'm the perfect man to start this, but who else? Someone has to begin," he argues...
...analogy is trite, to say the least, but it is also valid. Welles often belabors the author's meaning, but nowhere betrays it, even though he tries too hard to keep the story hoppin' like Hellzapoppin, galloping like a nightmare. Like Kafka, Welles adapts the methods of nightmare to narrative. Time at times turns rubber in his hands, and images live a violent private life; even Welles has seldom matched the visual bravura of The Trial. Much of the film was shot on one of the most spectacular sets a camera ever saw: the abandoned Gare...
Perhaps the only really valid objection to sending sporters to Cuba is the danger that Dr. Castro may pick them up. Such an incident, it is argued, would hurt American prestige and create strong pressure at some for invasion. But the danger to reporters is obviously not the primary motivation for the press-ban policy, for the Administration has made no effort to obtain a promise from the Cuban regime to guarantee reporters' safety. If Castro is sincere in the welcome he has extended to newsmen, he should agree to such assurances. At least we should call his bluff...
...Secretary McNamara should be reminded, before it is too late, that some problems are too complex and ill-defined for the electronic computer. In meteorology, for instance, we do not have sufficiently valid and powerful theoretical concepts to make the use of the computer meaningful, so it helps very little in weather forecasting...
...argument that student attendance at credit tutorial sessions will be better than under the present system is not valid, Handlin said, because "students often don't turn up for their regular courses either...