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...earth"). Its one considerable achievement is its tone of total assurance: reading it. a dedicated Communist might easily convince himself that history was undeniably on his side, that all his sacrifices were worthwhile, all his masters humane and wise, all his enemies villainous. It was all there, from moral fervor to shrewd, selfish appeals, and there was a specious coherence to it all. But some might take a closer look at the fine print...
Thus far, the people-to-people, international goodwill aspect of the tour has been fulfilled almost beyond expectations. In Japan, where choral singing has been taken up with almost religious fervor, four groups from Japanese universities joined the Americans in a booming, 400-voice rendition of "Auld Lang Syne...
Gripped by a powerful, primitive religious fervor, he saw writhing spirits in clouds and flowers, stones and branches, was "tormented with their demands that I paint them...
Last week the ritual was being repeated in ballrooms and cinemas all over Britain with a fervor that bordered on monomania. The British were out-bingoing the U.S. on a scale beyond the wildest dreams of the most game-happy Boston parish. The Mecca ballroom chain stages afternoon bingo games in 40 dance halls across Britain. But to bingo-mad mums, matinees at the Mecca were not enough, and the operators now promise bingo at least one night a week. Last week women began queueing outside one London hall at 7 in the morning to be sure of getting...
...pictures pass too quickly. All the many sides of Martin Luther are more or less touched upon-the brilliant scholar, the skillful dialectician, the linguist whose translation of the Bible molded the German language, the man whose interior life shifted from sharp reason to demonic visions to irrational fervor-but nearly all are glossed over. With hardly a suggestion of the poet who wrote A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, John Osborne concentrates on the crude-voiced Luther whose notable preoccupation with bodily functions produced the line: "If I break wind in Wittenberg, they smell it in Rome...