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...same year as Shakespeare (1564), Marlowe managed, in a short life, to write some fine lyric poetry ("Come live with me and be my love"), a long narrative poem (Hero and Leander), and four superb poetic dramas: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II. A militant atheist, in flight from arrest, he was killed at 29 during a drunken brawl in a riverside tavern near London, probably a political victim of Queen Elizabeth's Secret Service...
...estimate of "that old village atheist", Sinclair Lewis, erred only in regard to height. Whereas some of these new "churches" [Sept. 19] reflect a Middle Dow-Jones influence, or what's new in well-designed factories, others resemble surrealistic storm cellars...
...religion: "We [Communists] remain atheist, and we do everything we can to liberate a certain part of the people from the opium attraction of religion which still exists. But every person can practice the religion that pleases him, and care is taken never to annoy priests. Now that Soviet power has become so great, most priests have stopped their opposition to the Soviet government." ¶ On German kirschwasser: "This stuff is for oxen. I never in my life drank anything that burned my throat so much...
...French intellectuals of the Left have left the church, a lot of people will wish that they would stop arguing so noisily on the steps. Nevertheless, Camus is an honest, deeply intelligent man of near genius, who has tried to restate basic Christian morality in terms acceptable to an atheist, e.g., the Christian habit and virtue of pity. This may be a little like weeping for Tiny Tim while refusing to believe in Dickens. But U.S. readers, or at least those who have not taken their philosophy with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, will find a troubling power in Camus...
SINCLAIR LEWIS, that old village atheist, ironically professed to see American skyscrapers as cathedrals; the commercial towers of Babbitt's home town "aspired above the morning mists." In the booming cities of the '50s, it is not only skyscrapers that are rising from the ground. The U.S. is witnessing the greatest church-building boom in its history...