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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month in Lakeview, Ga., men of the same mental stamp as those who made up Hitler's Sturmabteilung, the local Ku Klux Klan, were attempting the same sort of intimidation. You quote [TIME, Feb. 16] the law enforcement officer of the county, Sheriff Jim Moreland, as saying: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." Further, he advised the victim to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan. Shades of the Munich Brown House...
Futile Success. In 1938, Pyke decided that Hitler could not be dislodged until Britain knew what the Germans really thought. He planned a sort of Gallup poll of the Third Reich-his investigators were to be disguised as a visiting British golf team...
...Arena held the same sort of excitement, when Harvard topplcd the Elis...
...Babes in the Wood, O'Connor enters the shadow-world of painfully solemn, almost preternatural children who suffer from their elders' illicit affairs. O'Connor's bitterest stories are implicit denunciations of the sexual attitudes-or lack of them-of the prim, provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance on the parish priest, is tempted to tell her "it was Father Ring she should have married," he refrains because he knows that "in time she'd be bound to confess it. There is nothing...
Priests. In many of the stories, O'Connor takes a mild jab at the clergy: Father Ring, a well-meaning but not too wise busybody; Father Cassidy, a worldly sort nonplussed by a girl's blithe confession of sin ("A philosopher of 60 letting Eve, aged 19, tell him about the apple!"); and Father Foley, a tragic figure who finds himself in love with a woman ("He sat by the fire wondering what his own life might have been with a girl like that, all furs and scents and laughter...