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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was also, in European Catholic circles, a fastidious tendency to identify Catholicism with Europe itself. Wrote Englishman Hilaire Belloc: "The culture of the U.S. is, from its original religion and by its momentum and whole tradition, opposed to the Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: America in Rome | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...dier Tristan was published in Paris in 1900; grateful Frenchmen gave Author Bédier a seat in the French Academy and bought 300 editions of his book. Last month Pantheon Books published the first complete English edition of Bédier's work, brilliantly translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, illustrated by Joet Nicolas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love's Old Sad Song | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

When Marie Belloc Lowndes wrote her masterpiece, "The Lodger," it was one of the finest studies in the reflexes of man that had ever graced back covers. The chiller is easily the best of the horror stories, and an honest presentation of it during the silent picture days was a tremendous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/7/1944 | See Source »

...real Ripper (who was never caught) cut the throats of and expertly mutilated six prostitutes. As fictionized in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's famed thriller, The Lodger, he was less shocking, was motivated by religious mania. The screen Ripper, derived from Mrs. Lowndes's novel, is even less shocking. In part this is due to the fact that the audience knows from the start that Laird Cregar is the Ripper, so that the suspense is purely academic. In part it is due to the incredible elegance of the production and photography, which makes the whole film more memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Chesterton's resistance to the common confusion of greatness with bigness and worldly importance was shared by his brilliant older friend, Historian Hilaire Belloc. Bernard Shaw transformed the two men into a single mythical creature called "The Chesterbelloc"-intellectual Siamese twins who waged furious war against those who preferred a recklessly expanding future to a return to a smaller, intenser way of life. The Chesterbelloc opposed votes for women. "Twenty million young women," wrote Chesterton. "rose to their feet with the cry We will not be dictated to: and proceeded to become stenographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orthodoxologist | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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