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Chief criticism Dark levels at British churchmen is that "Protestantism and Catholicism have both urged the patient acceptance of injustice in the sure and certain hope that things will be put right one of these days"-i.e., kept the poor in line by promising them future bliss. This, he finds, plays right into the dictators' hands, since they promise the poor something much more immediate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Plain Speaking in England | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, recently stated upon his return from South America that the mass of the people in South America and Central America are overwhelmingly pro-democratic, while the upper classes in some of the countries lean away from democratic sympathies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masses in South America Possess Democratic Spirit, Declares Haring | 10/18/1941 | See Source »

...your roommate owns a record-player, you can hear Copey read the Sixth and Seventh Chapters of the Book of Revelation in the silver tones that have earned him recognition the country over. On hand also is a recording by Bliss Perry, who gives a literary talk on Emerson's "Last Days in Concord" and Thackeray's "Henry Esmond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Famous Readings of "Copey" to Be Distributed by Film Service | 10/9/1941 | See Source »

...understanding. . . . This is something all men go through. . . . This isn't a break. . . . I've submerged myself for John Steinbeck. I became part of him. I wrote verse. I put it aside. Nothing mattered but John. . . ." / / Composer Walter Joseph Donaldson, who sang of domestic bliss in My Blue Heaven, sued Dorothy Ann Donaldson for divorce. She countered with a suit for separate maintenance of $175 a week, / / Minsky Stripper Rose La Rose sued for a divorce from J. Harrington Price, retired toy manufacturer. She told New York Sunday News reporters that after a hard day's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...Fort Bliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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