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...from Milan and Turin (where, said a Communist editor in conversation last week, "our work is already finished"), to concentrate on the peasants. Togliatti's tactic had undercut the Christian Democratic Party's appeal to the peasants that the real choice lay between Christian democracy and Red atheism...
...would-be commercial work; Horrid Novels were popular. Shelley enjoyed Oxford, holding his own there with what Blunden calls his "wickedly perfect politeness." He was really surprised and hurt when his love of epistolary arguments and pamphleteering got him expelled for printing a reasonable discussion on The Necessity of Atheism...
...Aldous (Brave New World).* Julian's tongue hurts as often as it humors; he was once described as "alternately cherub and pickle." In his picklish mood, he often puts people off with a burst of terrifying temper. Some delegates had reservations about picking a man who has professed atheism ("I do not believe in God, because I think the idea has ceased to be a useful hypothesis"), birth control, eugenic mating, state planning (as a member of the British group called PEP). But most UNESCO delegates thought the choice of Huxley was one way of luring reluctant Russia...
...belief of greying, sad-faced Robert Harold Scott, 57, is deep and abiding. Its single tenet: there is no God. For five years godless Robert Scott pestered San Francisco radio stations to let him air his atheism. Last week, more than three months after an FCC decision in his favor (TIME, Aug. 5), Station KQW gave him 30 minutes of Sunday morning time to rehash the arguments that have been the unbeliever's stock-in-trade for many a Christian year. Excerpts...
...marriage. It abounds in high-toned dialogue: "'Oh, Marmaduke! How dare you speak so of your betrothed.' " But even at 24, Shaw was already crusading (in this case against closed bedroom windows), commenting boldly on sex and sin, fluttering the gentry with open references to radicalism, atheism and the newfangled device called the electric light...