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...World Astray. Some of Dawson's essays turn over bits of information that the nonscholarly reader hardly expects to find. (Sample: Christianity got its ideas about courtly love and chivalrous knighthood from the Moslem civilizations of Spain.) But he seldom loses sight of the central struggle of the Middle Ages: the effort to build a truly universal Christian civilization-"the City of God on earth." Mostly the struggle was in the form of competition between the Church and the Holy Roman Empire-"between the ideal of a theocratic empire and that of a theocratic church, each of which...
...days of the 14th century, as the hoped-for synthesis was fast collapsing, Christian Europe threw up its greatest religious poets-Dante and William Langland, the poor London clerk who wrote Piers Plowman.* Both of them, says Dawson, although on different levels, wrote, convinced "that the world had gone astray...
...recently suspended by the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 28). Hereafter, worker-priests will be attached to parishes or traditional communities of priests, will no longer work full time at secular jobs-thus minimizing the chance that some of them, living by themselves in Red-tinted industrial areas, will be led astray by the Communism they set out to fight...
...have destroyed all my diaries . . . Let the biographers chafe; we won't make it too easy for them. Let each one believe he is right in his 'Conception of the Development of the Hero': even now I enjoy the thought of how they will all go astray...
...word to say about the old man. He still enjoys enormous personal popularity as one of the country's most honest, sincere and courageous patriots. One western-minded Iranian, critical of Mossadegh in the past, now says: 'There were some very bad men leading Mossadegh astray. But compare them to some of the people Zahedi has just named to his Cabinet and they don't look...