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Devils of Neurosis. The second great attempt at human balance came from the teachings of Jesus, which Author Mumford explains with a little help from Sigmund Freud. To a Roman world ridden with war, poverty and the brutality of the arena, Jesus "sought to bring the inner and outer aspects of the personality into balance by throwing off compulsions, constraints, automatisms." "No one else had spoken of the moral life with fewer negations or with so many positive expressions of power and joy." To Author Mumford, Jesus' healings of the sick are no miracles but works of "psychotherapy...
...story, without rich characterization, would be nothing much. A young priest (Bing Crosby) is sent by his bishop to help out an old one (Barry Fitzgerald) in Manhattan's mortgage-ridden St. Dominic's. For a while, they do not get along; but young Father O'Malley fixes up everything else almost too easily. He deals with a delinquent girl (Jean Heather) so silkily that before long she is married. He handles the jail-fodder kids of the street so astutely that before long they are singing Mozart's Ave Verum and liking it. He even...
Take Care, De Gaulle. Never had Charles de Gaulle ridden so high. His government had liquidated the most vexing symbol of Allied intervention in French affairs. It was accepted by the Allied High Command as the authority for the France that would be liberated. From London came word that General Dwight Eisenhower had invited General de Gaulle to talk problems of civil administration...
Shortly after he seized power, poverty-stricken, landlord-ridden peons revolted. Tattered peasant armies marched on the capital. The theosophist met them with shot & shell, screaming "Communists! Bolsheviks!" The U.S. Government believed him, sent the U.S. cruiser Rochester up from Panama, loaded with marines. Two Canadian destroyers and a British cruiser also appeared. When they reached El Salvador, the theosophist reported that the situation was well in hand; he had "liquidated 4,800 Bolsheviks." The visiting forces did not interfere. Before Mexico's intervention halted the blood bath, about 15,000 peons had been slaughtered...
...months, as ODT boss, genial, drawling Joe Eastman had worked a killing 15 hours a day to keep U.S. transportation fluid. As ICC commissioner for 25 years he had labored to master transportation economics. No other man knew the subject so thoroughly. And in politics-ridden Washington he was outstanding as a man who kept his mind...