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...Military Ending. When at last they met-the peasant-bloused count and the well-dressed shopkeeper's son-they wanted to like each other. Chekhov tried to forget Tolstoy's views on art, sex and nonviolence; Tolstoy tried to forget Chekhov's atheism and artistic refinement. Then each went his way, Tolstoy to further brooding and writing on man's rejection of his God-given destiny, Chekhov to those triumphs of human vivisection, The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard...
...women of Israel are reaching for religious forms to give meaning to their new nationhood. Parents who belong to the old secular-socialist tradition of Zionism are finding that their children demand observance of religious festivals; even in the collective farms, which have been called "hotbeds of atheism," young people feast and fast in accordance with the Jewish calendar...
Bearded priests of the Russian Orthodox Church and the clergy of Moscow's few "outside" churches-Roman Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Moslem and Buddhist -called special services to pray for the man who boasted of his atheism. The rabbis of Russia summoned their worshipers to bless the man who had so recently set in motion the scourge of antiSemitism...
...missed America. One has the impression that it did not reach this far. Or if it is noticed, it is not understood. It has no grip on this nation. This nation is pious. Perhaps it is necessary to be 40 centuries old in order to feel and live atheism as certain Europeans feel and live...
...throwing himself into what is a partisanship ... he is inevitably regarded as sharing the atheism on which Communism is based . . . By that inevitable influence, he blurs the Christian witness against atheism, and shocks those who know the suffering and persecutions which Christians have had to bear at the hands of Communists." What then could be done about him? "The church," said Dr. Fisher, "has no power to proceed against the Dean. If he is guilty of unreason and delusion to a remarkable degree, these faults do not, short of certifiable lunacy, expose anyone to legal consequences...