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...mostly Brazil's Army works hand & glove with the Church to reinforce the country's reactionary social pattern. Many a Brazilian liberal feared last week that the Army was out to silence not just Communists but all critics of the Dutra government. Its strongest allies: Brazil's fatalistic masses, who after a year and a half of democracy still do not know what to make of it, still accept the Army as the country's most potent and inevitable political force...
...owns and 33 Commission ships it has chartered are currently sailing with no set routes to ports in Europe, Africa and Asia. Lewis Lapham would like to get the line back to operating its own ships on regular schedules. But he plans to wait until the pattern of postwar trade is clear and the U.S. Government decides about subsidies...
Dean of the Law School here for 20 years, Professor Pound gained his reputation for the philosophy of "sociological jurisprudence" which he conceived and pioneered Law was for him no pattern of rules. His new attitude, now firmly established in legal thinking, viewed the law as "a way of living together by actual human beings...
...almost every murder trial, someone raises the question: is the defendant sane? Drs. Cohen & Coffin think it might be easy to tell after a look at the crime itself; if it conforms closely to the psychotic pattern, the murderer is probably insane. If such tests became common, could a sane murderer pass himself off as a crazy man by deliberately mimicking the psychotic pattern? Not likely, think Cohen & Coffin: a murderer in his right mind has a certain hesitancy about carving up his female relatives in the town square at high noon...
Though he adopted some of the analyses of Marxism, Chesterton's ideal pattern for society lay not in the future (with the dictatorship of the proletariat) but in the past. In the Middle Ages, said he, men inhabited "a world more wonderful than the eyes of men have looked on before or after . . . and saw St. Francis walking with his halo a cloud of birds...