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...with Premier Joseph Stalin, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Next Morning, the Communist Party's Pravda splashed a photograph across its front page: beaming Stalin, flanked by beaming Molotov, beaming Father Orlemanski (see cut). If Russia gasped that day, it had a good excuse: this was the first time Atheist Stalin had been photographed with a Catholic priest...
...have puzzled Indiana students, and is likely to puzzle readers who pay $2.50 to share their experience, is Mr. DeVoto's belligerence. With a chip on his shoulder the size of a two-by-four, with many a dubious assertion insisted on with the finality of the village atheist, and with sideswipes at Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passes, Robinson Jeffers and others whom he oddly lumps together, Mr. DeVoto seems less a critic than a Studs Lonigan of letters, daring anybody to come out and fight like...
...life, from drawing off a third foaming, savory volume of reminiscences.* As much as he loves beer Mencken loves "competence ... in any art or craft from adultery to zoology." This book is further testimony to his own competence as the nation's comical, warm-spirited, outstanding village atheist. He still stands ready to convulse, while he instructs, those fellow citizens who are willing to loaf a little on the village green...
...freedom, and eventually they tossed him aside because they disagreed with his views on religion. Last week, nearly 150 years later, within a cobblestone's throw of Independence Hall, he was officially tossed aside all over again. A Philadelphia park commission decided that Tom Paine smelled like an atheist, was not 100% acceptable to all Philadelphians. So it refused to allow his admirers to set a statue of him in Fairmount Park. Tom Paine's pamphlets included The Age of Reason ("The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them...
Possibly the most moving passages in The Song of Bernadette give account of the conversion of Werfel's archskeptic, one Hyacinthe de Lafite, a neighborhood patrician. In his youth, an arrogant atheist" individualist-poet, he had not bothered even to visit the newborn, crowded shrine. But now in his old age he confronts in Lourdes's hospital the full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille...