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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chapter 12 on "The Catholic Plan for America" is an interesting exergesis from various sources in Church literature, and reads very much like a reactionary Communist Manifesto. It is a program which has never been set forth by the American Catholic Church, and many Catholic clerics, according to Mr. Blanshard's own sources, agree neither with the temper of the thought, or the dogmatic authentication of the sources from which it is derived. Some clerics do agree, and the cases of Quebee and Spain certainly provide strong arguments for the possibility of compromise between Catholicism and fascism. But the blanket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

Clarin was forced to take the plane back to Brussels. There, according to the plan, the authorities were supposed to send him back to London, and London back again to Brussels, so that he would dramatically shuttle back & forth until the world got the point (whatever the point was). But the Belgians did not stick to the scenario and put Clarin in the red brick prison known in Brussels as the Little Castle. For two weeks, the world citizen stayed in a cell together with two dozen common drunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: For the Love of the World | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Said Danny Kaye, who will be back in the U.S. next month: "I give the audience some emotion, then I can feel it coming up from them. It goes back & forth in waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Traveling Salesman | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...often no females show up, though the males dance and hum their best. This has led to another theory that swarming is merely a device to brief the males and encourage them. After the dance is over, presumably, the males sally forth, full of enterprise, to hunt for mates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mosquito Mysteries | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...specialists. "People were never thoroughly contented with me," Goethe confided in his last years to Johann Peter Eckermann, the youth who was to become his Boswell. "[They] always wished me otherwise than it has pleased God to make me ... People expected from me some modest expression, humbly setting forth the total unworthiness of my person and my work ... I believed in God and in Nature, and in the triumph of good over evil; but this was not enough for pious souls: I was also required to believe other points, which were opposed to the feeling of my soul for truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man on a Winged Horse | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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