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...almost angry skeptic on the subject of reasoning by deduction, Russell asserts: "Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do. ... Jeans's God. like Plato's, is one who has a passion for doing sums, but being a pure mathematician, is quite indifferent as to what the sums are about. . . . Eddington and Jeans contradict each other, and . . . both contradict the biological theologians, but all agree that in the last resort science should abdicate before what is called the religious consciousness. This attitude...
...deciding quickly whether the statements about drinking, dancing and fornication are true or false. Then they are ready for discussion of problems based upon such questions as these (For girls): What is wrong in spooning, just letting a boy put his arm around you and kissing you? What is "passion"? What if a boy just steals a kiss? (For boys): What sensations (evil) come from spooning? Why is it that the prettiest girls are always the kind that expect to be "petted"? Will you define love...
...Mexico City, burning passion for a black-eyed tailor named Sergio Silva consumed two ladies. Senoritas Sofia Mendoza and Maria de los Angeles Garcia. Early one morning a drowsy policeman beheld the two women facing each other, each with one hand to the black shawl around her shoulders, a blazing pistol in the other. As the policeman ran forward Sofia Mendoza dropped with a bullet in her breast...
...Cohan has chosen to act the role of a mature man-of-the-world who has been keeping a girl (Lee Patrick) for several years. Suddenly Miss Patrick takes up with a young litterateur (Clifford Jones) who infects her with a desire to write, and with a holy passion. Kindly Mr. Cohan tries to reason with her, then gives up. He arranges for a publisher to give her an advance of $5,000 on her first work. This does not seem to surprise Miss Patrick as much as it surprises writers in the audience. In the end. however...
...PASSION SPENT-V. Sackville-West -Doubleday Doran ($2.50).* Lady Slane has just been widowed: her husband, onetime Prime Minister of England, Viceroy of India, has left her little money, much prestige, six aging children whom she hardly knows and does not care for very much. Her children have an even dimmer idea of their mother's real nature. When the family conclave meets to decide her future, she shocks them all by deciding for herself. For 30 years Lady Slane has dreamed of living alone in a little house in Hampstead ; she has even...