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...first place we have the new passion of nationalism; a passion even stronger in its potentialities for disaster than that of class or of race. M. Benda's analysis of the nationalism which grew up in the latter half of the nineteenth century and found its highest expression in the World War is keen and comprehensive. But it is not so much with the nationalism of men of action that M. Benda is concerned in his present work as with the nationalism of the intellectuals. Artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets, men of whom a certain degree of universality and detachment...
Prohibition, which it is Mrs. Willebrandt's sworn duty and, intellectual passion to help enforce, was of course the sole burden of the Willebrandt oration to the Methodists. But she had laid herself open to Democratic charges of religious incendiarism. What would Hooverism have said if a Smith supporter, let alone a public official, should cry out for an anti-Hoover uprising of Roman Catholics...
...secret Anglo-French military-naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13). Everyone now knows that the existence of the agreement was revealed through an incredibly stupid British blunder; and a further piece of British folly has been to keep the text dark after the fact of its existence leaked. Passion tinged the rich tones of Briand's voice as he cried: "France and Great Britain have been working together for the peace of the world, and have been singularly unfortunate...
...Weatherby, a portly widow with a sensuous passion for exotic religions, was flattered to receive them both one hot afternoon. Vain, she did not suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon...
...Winnery, desiccated bachelor of 56, collected notes for a book on "Miracles and Other Natural Phenomena." The sight of buxom Miss Fosdick, for all her black austerity of dress, reminded him that he had never known passion...