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...Church's direct appeal from the pulpits for Demo-Christian votes may have hindered as well as helped, for while 99.6% of all Italians are Catholics, many cling to a stubborn anticlerical tradition in politics...
Eoina Nudelman is a Russian-born artist who makes a living illustrating children's books and designing toys. In Chicago three years ago, Artist Nudelman designed a little toy pig that would cling to a cereal bowl, "eat" anything fed to it, and then inconspicuously drop its food back into the bowl. Entranced by Nudelman's gadget, Chicago's Topic Toys sent "Hungry Piggy" off to market and got a patent. But soon the pig had unwanted company...
...week's end, Churchill made a radio appeal for "a broad-based government resting on a clear and strong majority." Said Churchill: "The more it is plain that [the Laborites] have lost the confidence of the nation, the more obstinately and desperately they cling to their offices on the chance that something will turn up."' The Tory leader said in passing that he resented Stalin's recent description of Attlee as a warmonger. "I thought this was quite untrue," he said. "It was also unfair because this word warmonger was the one that Mr. Attlee...
Unlike the American, says Miller, the university-educated European is fiercely jealous of his position. Whether the university man is French or Dutch or Swiss, he is basically the same. "Each university does cling proudly and even fiercely to its distinguishing 'tradition'-and yet education on the Continent, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, is standardized ... I am forced to declare that there are respects in which the Continental method has become a hindrance to the Continent's survival. It is, in short, fossilized...
...note of profound pessimism pervades the work. Everyone is disillusioned by the beliefs he once cherished, each possesses an inarticulate longing for some Absolute to which he can cling. Only Communists like Fedya have replaced this longing with faith, but Fedya follows his blindly. His is but a conditioned reflex...