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...program is almost entirely manly, outdoor stuff. Second on the bill is "Fish from Hell", the log of a fishing expedition off the west coast of Mexico, featuring such gory delights as the death struggle between a whale and a sword fish. A Silly Symphony and Fox Movie tone News fill in the gaps...
...most frankly in an essay. On My Friendly Critics, written soon after the War: "I do not mind being occasionally denounced for atheism, conceit, or detachment. One has to be oneself; and so long as the facts are not misrepresented . . . any judgment based upon them is a two-edged sword: people simply condemn what condemns them. . . . My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image. . . . My detachment from things and persons is also affectionate, and simply what the ancients called philosophy: I consent that a flowing...
Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor For 'alf o' Creation she owns! We 'ave bought 'er the same with the sword an' the flame And we've salted it down with our bones (Poor beggars!-It's blue with our bones...
That evening the finals in the foils will be followed by an exhibition in the sword and sabre by the Olympic coaches. A dance for all contestants caps the day's program...
...least, there are grounds for pessimism. . . . "Nations seeking expansion, seeking the rectification of injustices springing from former wars or seeking outlets for trade, for population or even for their own peaceful contributions to the progress of civilization . . . have . . . impatiently reverted to the old belief in the law of the sword or to the fantastic conception that they, and they alone, are chosen to fulfill a mission and that all the others among the billion and a half of human beings in the rest of the world must and shall learn from and be subject to them. "I recognize that these...