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Religion is not the "brotherhood of man." The Golden Rule is a necessary but not a sufficient description of man's religious duty. Although almost all the great religions prescribe some variant of the Golden Rule, none of them relies on it exclusively. In the four Gospels Jesus speaks several times about the brotherhood of man, but he speaks of the Fatherhood of God just three times as often. Without that Fatherhood, man's efforts to live by the light of altruism have always landed him in its dark opposite...
...Late George Apley (20th Century-Fox), as a J. P. Marquand novel, was a cleverly genteel variant on the water-drip torture. The story told, in deadpan style, of the gradual destructiveness of a whole mode of life. Like the play which was made from the novel, the movie sacrifices the subtleties of gradualism for dramatic frame and focus...
...version would please those who want accurate scholarship, phrased so that it would read well aloud. It would disappoint those who expected debate. Said a collaborator: "Out of the thousands of variant readings in the manuscripts, none has turned up thus far that requires a revision of Christian doctrine...
...oculist, perhaps; but not by Webster. On p. 1827 Reader Woolf will find "persnickety" as a variant of "pernickety...
...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...