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...reported in Washington newspapers, Dr. Davies expressed Unitarian disapproval of Billy Graham's oldtime religion. Said he: "Heaven and hell, the description of God, the provision of a supernatural salvation-all these, at best, are mere assertions." He warned his congregation that too much talk of sin is apt to stir up several varieties of "guilt feelings," with lamentable Freudian results...
...economics, Quesnay on agriculture, Buffon on nature, Rousseau on music, and Montesquieu on taste. Diderot himself wrote on everything from intolerance and Spinoza to anagrams and onomancy-the "science" of telling a man's fortune by the letters in his name. He treated topics that intellectuals had been apt to ignore before. He spent hours studying iron foundries and gunpowder mills at first hand, imported workers from the factories of Lyons to help him with an article on the velvet trade...
...many shrugging Frenchmen are apt to regard such crises as merely a bad joke, and to say that the government runs itself without a Premier. But with the war hotting up in Indo-China, with a budget crisis at home, and with parliamentary decisions waiting to be made on NATO and the European Army, the pavane is in grave danger of becoming a danse macabre...
...once she's away from the studio, Marlene is apt to turn languid. "Acting just happens to be my profession," she says. "I could live very well without it. I have no ambition. I've never had the message. I'm afraid that all my life I've needed a push and never done things for myself." She recalls that Noel Coward recently described her as a realist and a clown: "He's right. Of course, I never show my clown side to the public. It doesn't go with the other thing...
...American Catholicism may soon be dictating to Rome; there is suspicion, in fact, that this is already so. It may be a polite dictatorship, but where the money comes from, thence also the orders are apt to originate. Before too long there may be an American Pope, with a 'summer' residence here, and a College of Cardinals packed with local bishops. The Government of the United States might then find itself sending an ambassador to an American citizen...