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...many ways Elder Michaux resembles Harlem's Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, Aug. 7. et seq.). Each declines to tell his age. Each performs good works among poor Negroes. Each lulls his followers with a catchword (Father Divine's: "Peace, It's Wonderful''). Each preaches a warm, rambling theology. But Elder Michaux makes no claim to divinity. Once a fish peddler in Norfolk, he preached in Hopewell, Va., went to Washington in 1929 to found the Church of God under the Gospel Spreading Association. A small Alexandria radio station, WJSV, began picking up his services...
Chief exponent of laissez-faire as a political doctrine, Bentham developed a philosophy of utilitarianism whose catchword became "the greatest happiness of the greatest number." Bashful, eccentric, fond of giving names to things, he spent his last year in a house he called "The Hermitage," whose dining room was to him "The Shop." A crusty personage, he might invite you to spend the day, not bother to give you a meal until 10 p.m. When Mme de Stael visited London she gushed: "Tell Bentham I will see nobody until I have seen him." Grunted Jeremy Bentham: "Sorry...
...provided himself with 30 quarts of pasteurized goat's milk and enough dried fruit to live on until he reaches London. In his meagre luggage there was also a copy of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. Discovery of this fact set observers to wondering if the Mahatma had borrowed his catchword and chief weapon from the New England sage...
...even if the nomenclature is a mixed metaphor) he perched over a super-hetrodyne for the Sharkey-Campolo affair and that little detail cleared up the Iliad. He even attempted to get into the mood of the Greek drama but-somewhere or other he has learned that the needy catchword for the theatre of Sophocles is "simplicity." He tried, yes and diligently, but whoever could attain quiet and simplicity amid the thundering cement-grinders, seemingly banal excavations, and unutterable chaos mixed with modern Georgian architecture which has flooded the Cantabrigtan shores? His advice is to take "The New Criterion...
...usual comment among Oxford Americans on your unique publication. That scholars should turn aside from research and the other aspects of that "Good Life" which Oxford offers may be of some interest, especially to the editors of the one publication in the world which combines efficient condensation and catchword colloquialisms...