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...Millennium. In Victoria, B.C., the Canadian Red Cross Mobile Blood Transfusion Clinic got some blood from A. Stone...
...mind grew God-webby as World War II grew more terrible. He began to doubt that evil was something that could be cured by socialism, progressive schools and psychoanalysis. He now says with a grin: "In that view, a world of adequately psychoanalyzed Communists would be the millennium...
...after liberation, and the biggest allotment of newsprint. We ship in wheat and not a word of it gets in the paper. Russia sends in a boatload of wheat, makes the French transport it and pay for it in American dollars, and you'd think it was the millennium from the way the Communist newspapers play...
With the approach of the first millennium 947 years ago, says Mounier, man also looked to the destruction of his world. "The word 'apocalypse' has become synonymous, in the contemporary mind, with catastrophe and terror. This is a gross misunderstanding. I do not mean that the [10th Century] Christians . . . felt no holy terror at the idea of judgment and divine justice. They were neither better nor worse than we are, but they viewed their weaknesses from a high moral perspective. They thought that Justice would be severe, but they knew that the severity would be just. . . . Even when...
Last week, the first Pete Bostwick Handicap Tournament was won by a California team whose players included a horse dealer, a veterinarian, and a horse trainer. Bostwick's self-supporting millennium had not yet arrived: the winning team was largely subsidized by California's rich J. A. Wigmore. But there was encouraging news. At $1 a head, record crowds (average: 3,800 a match) turned out at Bostwick Field at Westbury, Long Island. The gate receipts were enough to pay all expenses, including the $5,000 prize. Cheered by his success, Promoter Bostwick promised fatter purses next year...