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Another Matter. Like Voltaire, Will Durant was a Jesuitic dropout, and he finds in Voltaire an early and pristine mirror of "the decline of religious belief begetting the pessimism that would be the secret malady of the modern soul." With his ferocious assault on Christianity in a thousand plays, poems, stories, letters and polemical tracts, Voltaire accelerated more than any single man the decline of the church's authority in the 18th century...
...major dailies, only the New York Post, which does not belong to the association, was still on newsstands-a situation that served as an ominous reminder of 1962's 114-day newspaper strike, which crippled the city's papers and helped send one of them, the Daily Mirror, to its death...
...takes as many as 50 phone calls a day, goes to as many as six parties an evening, all in the interest of turning out six columns a week for 60 newspapers. Her fame has been growing ever since 1963, when she moved from the defunct New York Daily Mirror to the New York Journal-American, where she replaced Cholly Knickerbocker, who had been indicted by the U.S. for failing to register as an agent of the Dominican Republic...
...stark, black-and-white portrait of an old man who awaits death in a small, lonely room. Seeking absolute solitude, he turns out his cat and dog, closes the curtains, covers the parrot cage and goldfish bowl with his coat, and blacks out the room's only mirror. Finally, he destroys the last reference to the world in which he has lived, a packet of old photographs. But he cannot escape himself, and as he lifts his eyes to the barren wall before him, he comes face to face with the image of his own deadpan likeness, with...
...town, and the temperature was 124°. With something like a genius for self-preservation, the Scotts drank the water from their car radiator, cut up blankets to make an S O S sign, dipped a tire in engine oil to serve as a signal fire, dismounted the car mirror to flash distress signals at passing planes, set out their hubcaps to catch the morning dew. They smeared lipstick on sunburn blisters and swollen lips, discovered some wax crayons and a pot of glue (made from milk products) among their luggage and fed them to the children. They cooled their...