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Saint & Symbol. Joan of Arc, France's patron saint-who was persuaded by her inquisitors to deny her visionary powers-has long served Bernanos as a symbol of Republican France. Joy's heroine, Chantal de Clergerie, is a much-modified Joan, facing present-day inquisitors in modern dress...
...hate, modern art, gets both barrels: "You don't need a guide to explain Sargent's portrait of Marquand or Whistler's Mother. . . . But what do you need beginning with Manet's Olympia through Nude Descending the Staircase ... to the present-day Portrait of a Vacuum Cleaner having its Tonsils removed or Salad Bowl full of Left Ears? I feel that you need the Yale Bowl to be sick...
...never made clear. Certainly neither Keynes nor Hansen has justified or urged support of such policies. And, just as certainly, either of them would be quick to point out that such defensive special pleading arises from the sense of economic insecurity which is the most deeply rooted fear in present-day society...
...term "radical" has, as you well know, fallen into disrepute today and carries with it a certain distasteful connotation. If anything, I hope my position is progressive, but at all times it is certainly Christian. As such it could not be "radical" in the accepted sense and present-day application of the word...
Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...