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Most observers of the European scene class De Gasperi-along with such men as Germany's Adenauer, France's Schuman and Belgium's Spaak-as a topflight and selfless statesman-politician. Few would call him a "great man." But time & again he has been paid a handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man from the Mountains | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

A good-looking bachelor with craggy features and a voice like the Great Gilder-sleeve, Miles is a model extrovert. His personality and opinions are as open to public consumption as his sherry bottle. He is a staunch partisan of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Democratic Party, slipping the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Democrat and a Thomist | 2/3/1953 | See Source »

It is in the dining hall that Miles in his element. He always draws a full table, and will stay until the last man is finished--never less than an hour. In a House that is a stronghold of Young Republicanism, Miles especially enjoys political jousts. Waving his cigar and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Democrat and a Thomist | 2/3/1953 | See Source »

His parting advice to Merton: "Mysticism is not for the masses but for an elite. To lose sight of this is to divert Christians from what may well be, for the majority of them, their most urgent business. Their call is not to take flight from society but to revivify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Benedictine v. Trappist | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

James McGee, who wrote The Temptation of Maggy Haggerty, is apparently one of these militant archaists who believe that anything invented after the death of Thomas Aquinas is the work of the devil. In Mother Haggerty's boarding house the villains are a quack doctor, advocate of machines, printed matter...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Temptation of Maggy Haggerty | 11/13/1952 | See Source »

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