Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Such a bold venture as setting the fleeting moment in its perspective is bound to run afoul of fast changing events on some points. But the broad analysis on which Professor Hughes bases his essay is both provocative and gives a long-range, sober base from which to view the headlines...
...author considers these three religions from a philosophical, not a practical, point of view. Judaism, he says, is a covenant which binds together one chosen group of people in an exclusive pact with God. Catholicism "is the enterprise of establishing in some effective fashion a synthesized tradition which will embody the wisdom of the ages." Protestantism is the most adaptable member of the triumvirate, and exists in a different form in the mind of each believer...
When the authorities at Oklahoma City's 20-acre Lincoln Park Zoo got the newest addition to their menagerie installed in public view two weeks ago, they experienced a pardonable glow of' civic pride. The newcomer was a full-grown leopard, brought straight from the jungles of India and probably one of the toughest tomcats ever to wind up in stir...
...Patched Mirror. The Waste Land is easier on the ear than on the mind. It is like a kaleidoscopic mirror held up to the age-a patched mirror which at first seems to reflect only a heap of broken images, but which, to a longer view, blends them into a single bizarre picture, at once as strange and as familiar as one's own face (or one's own city) seen in a recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate...
...past ten months, the U.S. has been buying, borrowing and talking about a volume popularly called "the Blanshard book." American Freedom and Catholic Power by Manhattan Lawyer-Journalist Paul Blanshard is a well-organized polemic against the Roman Catholic Church. Written from an aggressively secular point of view, it has chilled many a Protestant as it has enraged many a Catholic with its picture of a totalitarian Vatican out to undermine U.S. democracy...