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Writing in the New York Catholic weekly, the Commonweal, Law Professor Max Ascoli, who fled Mussolini's Italy, called Giannini's paper neoFascist, explained: ". . . Its substantial permanent characteristic is its hatred of democracy, of competitive political parties. . . . Neo-Fascism tries to debase the people into a rabble kept happy and distracted with solaces and carnivals of all types. . . . Neo-Fascism does not need great leaders...
...Calvinist Karl Earth. Expelled from Bonn University in 1935 for refusing to take the Hitler oath of allegiance, he has been lecturing at Basel University in his native Switzerland. He leaves this month to lecture at the Russian-sponsored University of Berlin. Sometimes called "a theologian's theologian," neo-orthodox, nonhumanist Earth has exerted great influence in both Europe and America; when he speaks, churchmen listen...
...calendar pictures and the photographic homespun (characteristic of Saturday Evening Post covers), contemned "modern" art. (His taste got no further than 1870.) In sculpture, he went for ferocious eagles and muscular nudes which lacked the serenity of their Greek models. He thought buildings should be monumental in the neo-Roman postoffice style, but more severely simple than the U.S. variety...
...most new churches will look just like the old ones. Says Walter A. Taylor, consultant to the Interdenominational Bureau of Architecture: "History and logic to the contrary, the now familiar forms of the Victorian and neo-Gothic have become a tradition-the phrases of architectural language which say 'church...
...Beautiful. The glittering Staatsoper on the Ringstrasse, which circles the inner city, had been gutted. The walls of Saint Stephen's stood gaunt and beautiful. The interior was gone. At the Chancellery a bomb had sheered away the room where Dollfuss was assassinated. One wing of the hideous neo-Roman Parliament was burned out. Both the Burgtheater and the Belvedere were in ruins. Franz Josef's Hofburg was scarred but essentially undamaged. So were Schönbrunn and the Rathaus. One bridge remained over the Danube Canal. About 70% of the inner city, where the big stores, shops...