Word: atheism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...name in hotel registers. Other Shelley dislikes: commerce, finance, monarchy, almost any tradition, marriage. Shortly before his death, Shelley wrote Leigh Hunt: "The system of society as it exists at present must be overthrown from the foundations. . . ." Before he was tossed out of Oxford (for publishing The Necessity of Atheism), Shelley had dedicated himself to this overthrow...
...went up against the spoilsmen-masters of legislative sabotage. He had drafted a bill empowering the President to cover into the civil service by examinations some 200,000 job holders in 26 Federal agencies; to extend departmental Washington pay scales to the field service. This was something like combined atheism and blasphemy at a religious revival. The spoilsmen got busy at killing the bill. They gave it the works: delay, amendments that subverted its whole purpose, points of order, objections, pigeonholings, pressure. Ramspeck resurrected the measure, answered the lies, used a pulmotor of persuasion on fainthearts, avoided personalities, stuck grimly...
...heart-broken. They remember how Shirley gave new life and artistry to such old and unimaginative stories as "Heidi" and "Blue Bird." We're pretty well down in the dumps ourselves--for even more profound reasons. In an American youth polluted with the destructive forces of Communism, Fascism, Atheism, Cynicism, and Bertrand Russell, little Shirley has been the only ray of pure and unadulterated sunshine. For half a dozen years now, she has stood for all that is fine in America's young people. And so we say with Bill Robinson: "Virtue is never its own reward--except in Shirley...
Last fortnight New York Justice John E. McGeehan upheld Mrs. Kay, revoked the appointment. Said Earl Russell: "It strikes me between the eyes. . . . Precisely the same accusations were brought against Socrates -- atheism and corrupting the young." Socrates was forced to drink hemlock. Russell is booked to lecture at Harvard. --Life Magazine...
EUROPEAN JUNGLE - Francis Yeats-Brown-Macrae Smith ($3). England's yogi-man (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Yogi Explained} submits a hot-eyed appraisal of pre-war Europe. Yeats-Brown's arch-enemies are Communism, Atheism, Internationalism, Pacifism. Hitler, "a great man, whatever his failings . . . great in spirit," is favorably compared with Gandhi, T. E. Lawrence. France is "one of the most enjuivé [Jewridden] countries in Europe . . . nothing but a dictatorship can save [the French]." Readers who must grant the author the courage of his two-thirds fascist convictions, supported by no little factual solidity, will...