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Gallegos' speeches had a New Deal flavor; he advocated state-aided economic development, warned against Falangism. When charges of "atheism" and "ungodliness" were hurled against him and his party, he countered by denouncing Venezuela's Jesuits as "foreign representatives of France," accused Caldera's party of claiming to be "the instrument of a divine miracle." But Gallegos promised to respect all religion, and in the end the religious issue seemed to have affected the election outcome not at all. The important thing to Venezuelans was that democracy was finally having its day and that Gallegos seemed able...
Eaton took this line: "Americans are such good people that they are slow to recognize wickedness. . . ." Russia is a "ruthless and brutal nation," full of "atheism and immorality," its inhabitants, "ranging from Mongol beggars to stuffed commissars," mostly unhappy. In a flash of etymological insight he concluded: "Neither the Russians nor their tyrants understand the meaning of democracy. They are Slavs, which means captives or slaves...
Clive deserted the Church of Ireland (affiliated with the Anglican Church) for atheism. After a brief World War I career as a 2nd lieutenant in France, where he was wounded in the back by a British shell that fell short, Lewis graduated from Oxford with honors, tried a few years as a starveling poet, and in 1925 happily accepted his present post...
...dialectical jargon. Like Popeye, the hero of The Age of Reason keeps low company, often talks in unprintable expletives, believes supremely in his own powers of action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy which denies religion or any ethical code...
...persons interfere with its airtight immigration laws. At the first hint of a leak last summer, Mississippi's frog-voiced John Rankin had trumpeted the considered opinion of many another quota-conscious Congressman: "There are too many so-called refugees pouring into this country bringing with them communism, atheism, anarchy and infidelity." But last week a House Judiciary subcommittee gingerly got ready to hold hearings on a bill by Illinois' Congressman William G. Stratton, which would admit 400,000 D.P.s over the next four years, by reopening the books on unfilled wartime quotas...