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DAVID COPPERFIELD-Charles Dickens; condensed by Robert Graves; edited by Merrill P. Paine-Harcourt, Brace ($1.00). When Robert Graves's The Real David Copperfield appeared in England last year, critics shouted "Blasphemy!" Author Graves had laid impious hands on the sacred text of David Copperfield, had dared not only to abridge it but also to rewrite it. Calling David Copperfield an autobiographical novel in which Dickens "for once . . . felt personally committed to the truth,'' and which he managed to keep "honest, though diluted, for quite a third of the way," Author Graves pointed out the patent fact...
Addressed to the Mexican hierarchy, Acerba animi flays the anti-religious propaganda, expropriation of churches, exile of clergy and suppression of religious instruction in primary schools by Mexico's National Revolutionary Party (Government). "Iniquitous" and "impious" are the laws limiting clergy, designed under the Constitution to "correspond to the religious needs of the faithful and of the locality" but actually administered to ''eliminate [the Church] gradually from the republic." Of the many State laws limiting clergy (the latest provides 24 churches and 24 priests for the million-odd inhabitants of the Federal District of Mexico City-TIME...
...Stuttgart's Schwabischer Merkur, old Father Bogoyavlenski tells how Schoolboy Stalin, when baited by a scoffer with Russia's old rigmarole, "beat the impious one so mercilessly that he had to be sent to the hospital...
...triumphal offerings of the vine. They gather, whiff the sacred fragrance, and sip, nor do they ever drink to the joys of youth and songs of pleasure. They are sad, as wine has made them sad; the fields of Bacchus have been sullied by the mundane and unworthy impious of the temple of Mercury. The cratera is empty, while cases of gin replace the dusty amphora...
...sold native products to visitors. Through the crowds circulated vendors of the real, authentic Basilica cigarets, proceeds from the sale of which were, to be given by El Aquila Cigaret Co. to the alteration fund of the Basilica. El Aquila had first christened the cigarets Cuarto Centenario, but an impious competitor had quickly produced a brand known as Centenario, necessitating change of name and an advertisement denouncing the upstarts as crass mercenaries...