Word: atheism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eaton took this line: "Americans are such good people that they are slow to recognize wickedness. . . ." Russia is a "ruthless and brutal nation," full of "atheism and immorality," its inhabitants, "ranging from Mongol beggars to stuffed commissars," mostly unhappy. In a flash of etymological insight he concluded: "Neither the Russians nor their tyrants understand the meaning of democracy. They are Slavs, which means captives or slaves...
...dialectical jargon. Like Popeye, the hero of The Age of Reason keeps low company, often talks in unprintable expletives, believes supremely in his own powers of action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy which denies religion or any ethical code...
...persons interfere with its airtight immigration laws. At the first hint of a leak last summer, Mississippi's frog-voiced John Rankin had trumpeted the considered opinion of many another quota-conscious Congressman: "There are too many so-called refugees pouring into this country bringing with them communism, atheism, anarchy and infidelity." But last week a House Judiciary subcommittee gingerly got ready to hold hearings on a bill by Illinois' Congressman William G. Stratton, which would admit 400,000 D.P.s over the next four years, by reopening the books on unfilled wartime quotas...
...from Milan and Turin (where, said a Communist editor in conversation last week, "our work is already finished"), to concentrate on the peasants. Togliatti's tactic had undercut the Christian Democratic Party's appeal to the peasants that the real choice lay between Christian democracy and Red atheism...
...would-be commercial work; Horrid Novels were popular. Shelley enjoyed Oxford, holding his own there with what Blunden calls his "wickedly perfect politeness." He was really surprised and hurt when his love of epistolary arguments and pamphleteering got him expelled for printing a reasonable discussion on The Necessity of Atheism...