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So wrote Karl Marx 118 years ago. The Marxists duly abolished religion, and happiness reigned among the people. But in Communist Poland, and perhaps in Russia too, a dreadful question is beginning to be heard in the classrooms and corridors and the cafés where young people gather-a...
The late Malcolm Lowry was the Dylan Thomas of modern fiction. Like Thomas, he was a hypnotic user and abuser of language. Like Thomas, the author of Under the Volcano erupted in lava flows of talk and lapsed into broody silences. Like Thomas, Lowry was a compulsively heavy drinker. At...
U.S.C. fell to "footballism," a blend of pep rallies and fraternity frivolities-"the undergraduate mating dance," in one professor's words. The faculty fared worse. Presiding for 25 years was miserly, grandiloquent "Rufus Rex"-President Rufus von KleinSmid, who claimed to be paying professors between $4,200 and $7...
Far from making do-nothing fatalists of men, Calvin's doctrine of the elect attracted millions all over Europe and America and made them dedicated doers. Calvin, who was confident of his own election, found the dreadful doctrine "productive of the most delightful benefit." The same warming certainty of...
Many men have vainly speculated on what sort of punishment could conceivably fit the enormity of Eichmann's crime. Yet it remained last week for Eichmann himself to come up with a suggestion that no one else had thought of. As the court sat awed and uneasy, Eichmann'...