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...question of Jesus, Bernstein finds that a new attitude has been growing among Jews during the past generation, as "the religious factors in anti-Semitism have become less prominent." There seems to be a trend, he says, toward bringing Jesus back into "the mainstream of Jewish history. A Jewish basis has been found for most of his teachings. His stature is that of the Hebrew prophet, fearless fighter for righteousness. Like all religious geniuses, he was unique. As with Isaiah and Amos before him, he did not merely echo his people's convictions...
...Velasquez and Rembrandt." His careful study of all three was made apparent last week in a fine survey of Goya's work staged by a Manhattan gallery. The show also pointed up the strength and poignancy of Goya's feelings, which set him well apart from the mainstream...
...quarter of a century ago, with Sun Yat-sen's mantle on his shoulders, young Chiang had marched up the mainland to Nanking and into a new Nationalist China. He had embraced Christianity. According to his lights, he had sought to guide his nation into the mainstream of modern civilization. He had broken the warlords, checked an early international Communist conspiracy, survived Japanese aggression-only to go down before a later, greater Communist conspiracy and the corruption which grew up in his own war-torn regime. No national leader had fought armed Communism longer or more tenaciously...
Opposing Schlesinger in the discussion, entitled "The Center and the Left," Herbert Aptheker, associate editor of "Masses and Mainstream," charged that the "vital center" of which Schlesinger is a proponent, "only maintains what exists, namely monopoly capitalism." He called for a unity among all non-conservatives "so that a war against Fascism and capitalism can and must be successful...
...instructor of History at the Jefferson School of Social Science in New York, Aptheker in his October article in "Masses & Mainstream" called Schlesinger a "bourgeois-begotten- natured and bound intellectual. . . unrestrained even by the fetters on misquotation...