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...teaching talent made up one of the largest single Protestant faculties in the U.S. Its tradition, exemplified by Bible Translator Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and liberal Theologian Shailer Mathews, was solidly liberal. But in 1943 theological liberalism looked like an outworn creed beside the fashionable stringencies of Niebuhr's neo-orthodoxy...
...McCullough and his fellow foresters took to the new ideas, thousands of neo-druids-conservationists of the old touch-nothing school-were horrified: "One schoolteacher I took on a tour was so damned mad when she saw tree stumps in a national forest she couldn't talk," he says. "The lady thought for sure I'd sold out the nation's birthright to the robber barons. That happens quite a bit with people who haven't learned that conservation today means cutting down trees, not just leaving them to rot in noble splendor...
Simply sighting flying saucers is out of date-the big spin now is to spot them landing and to hobnob with their interplanetary passengers. Pioneer yarn-spinner among the neo-Münchausen breed is George Adamski, a self-described Southern California "philosopher, student, teacher, saucer researcher" and former short-order cook who claimed (in last year's Flying Saucers Have Landed) that he stood beside a saucer on the California desert in November 1952 and talked (telepathically) with a tanned, short visitor from Venus...
Frenchmen call the National Assembly building "The House Without Windows." Inside its sooty, neo-Grecian walls last week, it was as if the outside events of the past three months had never happened...
...turn the screws on Italy's home grown Reds. "Italy's foreign policy of collaboration with the West," beamed the Premier as he left the Chamber, "is no longer a party policy but has become a national policy." It was the first time that the Monarchists and neo-Fascists have joined the government on a major issue, isolating the Communists and the left-wing Socialists...