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Thus U. S. democracy, which began with the simple fervor of Roger Williams, entered the 20th Century with more complex and troubled beliefs. Trying to uncover a central, durable and indispensable tenet for modern U. S. democracy, Gabriel finds it, as did the late, great liberal, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the one among the 18th-Century "rights of man" which still seems indubitably "natural": individual freedom of thought and speech...
Ernest Bloch: Quartet (Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia: 12 sides). Composed in 1916, when musical Zionist Bloch was hurling his Hebraic thunderbolts with youthful fervor, his lone quartet has waited until now for its first (a fine) recording...
...years I, as a rabbi, like all rabbis, denounced with all the oratorical fervor and fury at my command this celebration of Christmas by my own people. . . . 'Christmas,' I pleaded, 'is for the Christian - for him it is a happy, beautiful, holy day. It is not for the Jew - for him it is at best alien, at worst fraught with bloody memories and immemorial terrors...
...BRITAIN IS AT WAR - Harold Nicolson-Penguin (25?). Semi-propaganda for the literate: the British argument put with skill and fervor by a ringside spectator of British foreign policy since Versailles. The next Peace Conference will have a fighting chance of fairness, Nicolson thinks, only if a Final Treaty is negotiated between victor and vanquished at their leisure and at least a year after the Preliminary Treaty, or Diktat, is imposed. For implementing a future society of nations, he proposes (less convincingly) that all civil and military aircraft be operated by the "League...
...Darwin was a scientist first, a father afterward. From the moment his first child, William Erasmus ("Doddy"), was born, 100 years ago, the eager Revolutionist began to take notes on his infants' wailing, coughing, drooling, kicking, stretching, winking, frowning, screaming. "With a fine degree of paternal fervor," Darwin tickled the naked soles of his babies' feet with paper, "tried to look savage" to provoke tears. Purpose of his baby-baiting was to determine whether the instinctive reactions of childhood were similar to the gestures of lower animals...