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...true that the Mass was composed six hundred years after Chartres and St. Thomas, six centuries following the time when man held "the highest ideal of himself as a unit in a unified universe." Undeniably it was written following the Reformation, in a Europe torn by a chaos of sectarian dissonances; but for this very reason is it so all-embracing, for instead of excluding heresies, it absorbs and sweeps them up into the one gigantic scheme. Into the Mass is blended the simple humanity of Lutheranism and the grandeur of Catholicism, the eternal spirit of religion rather than...
...London's Windmill Theatre featured "The Platinum Goddess," a pretty dancer whose brassiere and skirt were torn off by a male dancer...
...Senate torn by an effort to make politics pure continued last week to ignore a resolution by New Hampshire's stubborn Charles W. Tobey. Mr. Tobey wanted the Senate to deplore the Census Bureau's income and personal questions. Flying in Mr. Tobey's direction came a brickbat from Franklin Roosevelt, a concession from Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins. Snapped Mr. Roosevelt, touchy last week with a cold: "For the first time . . . a U. S. Senator has openly advised the American people to violate the law." Mr. Hopkins, still ill and away from his desk for the eighth...
...Intensive air bombing of supply lines and the enemy's home front is highly effective even against people as calm and well organized as the Finns. If port facilities and factories are not put out of commission, their functioning is greatly reduced by air-raid interruptions. Though torn-up tracks may soon be relaid, troop trains are harassed, train schedules disrupted by repeated threats from above...
...first-night crowd of 12,000 thronged happily through this new Kentucky home. At show's end it will be torn down, erected permanently in a Louisville suburb for sale at $8,250. Designed by Treanor & Fatio, swank Manhattan architectural firm, whose house commissions normally run from $25,000 up, it was the first LIFE house of 1940 to be completed...