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...With Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, and Santayana stands a man whom future generations probably will pronounce no whit their inferior..."; "like Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Schleicrmacher, he gathers up the strands of all that is best in secular thought, and unites them with the truths of God's self-disclosure"; "he has my vote for possessing one of the most enormous brains in the world"; these statements--the first two by editors Charles Kegley and Robert Bretall and the third by the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University--all refer to Paul Johannes Tillich, Protestant theologian...
...unchecked sway, but a day of reckoning shall come. For a breed of Harvardmen will grow up, never having tasted that curious elixir--the blend of fall air, football, and good scotch. When the new alumnus gets slowly soused of a Saturday afternoon, he will care not one whit whether Crimson is in triumph flashing. As interested alumni gradually become extinct, the Harvard farm system will dwindle. Within a decade the Red Beast will again be no more than a small pink rodent...
...stock in Connecticut's Niles-Bement-Pond, a machine-tool mak er with plenty of cash in the till. After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed.* With Colt's assets of $9,000,000 in his holster, it looked as if Silberstein had taken another big step towards his an nounced goal of making Penn-Texas one of the biggest U.S. corporations...
...believe that God meant us to find the atom. Admittedly, we are wrestling with the greatest alteration in man's relation with Nature since the upheaval at the time of the Garden of Eden. But his fundamental relation with God has not changed one whit. The same trial that tested the first man in Eden, and every man since, challenges us in the atomic problem. It is the exercise of choice, the dangerous freedom to use God-given power for good or ill. I do not mean for a moment that science is wrong, but only...
...kicking other young punks who are down and unarmed. The amazing thing is that the writers, actors, and director are so skillful that one doesn't at all mind these breaches of horse opera etiquette. In fact, it would kill the picture's charm if the heroes were a whit less disposed to prove their toughness...