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...question of immediate response to an impelling urgency or else progressive surrender to the calculated advance of World Communism. If nothing had been done, the conquest of Europe by Communism would have been immeasurably advanced...
They seem rather few these days. Yet the mystical tradition is sustained by many poets and intellectuals, for example, T. S. Eliot. And the direct experience of God is still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest. Across time and space the great mystics share their discovery. Dostoevsky and St. Teresa bear witness to identical ecstasies. The visions of many a saint are echoed in these words by the late flyer Saint-Exupéry, who alone above the clouds found himself "enclosed as in the precincts of a temple," where, "by the grace...
...mount the throne and demand for the first time the right to a private bedroom. A half-century later, wide-eyed Victoria had become an aged Empress with drooping jowls, and her Kingdom a true Empire heavy with gold, black with industrial soot, and red with the blood of conquest...
...dramatic truthfulness is an unique manisfestation of human genius," Walter stated, but like Goethe's, it is not a revolutionary but a mere "harmonious type of human genius that in every new work makes a conquest in a new sphere, in a new phase of superhuman creative form...
MacVeagh shared the Greek Government's exile after the Nazi conquest and (promoted to ambassador) shared in its tragic return. His reports, once prized for their wit, have recently been soberly serious. A philosophic democrat, MacVeagh has seen Greece, which gave the word democracy to the world, sick from within and under assault from without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free...