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Torn between conflicting philosophies, the student may turn away from Judaism completely; or he may come back to it with new intellectual tools, seeking to mold a familiar image. "Some people think that Judaism becomes more respectable when it wears the cloak of popular philosophies," Rabbi Gold said. "It is quite likely that students prefer to discuss Jewish questions on grounds more familiar to them: how does religion relate to things taught them at the University? How does it fit in with different philosophies?" Religion is discussed from the reference frame of their new value system. This is inimical...
...spite of an occasional flash of gallows humor that sometimes sounds as if its author were not really sure what takes place at a hanging, the book trots on amiably enough. The pigeons of the title belong to spies, and Heroine Lady Sophia Garfield has some rousing cloak-and-dagger experiences. The most amusing touch is a supposed renegade who shatters the morale of Britain's pet-lovers by broadcasting that "few dogs and no cats carried gas masks, and gas-proof cages for birds and mice were the exception rather than the rule. The animal first-aid posts...
...most important information without angering army and navy intelligence men. Such information as the most important bombing targets ("We couldn't tell the Air Force what to bomb, but we could tell them what the relative importance of targets was") and what railroads needed attack was provided by the "cloak and dagger boys...
Over in Asia, another History Department "cloak and dagger boy" was at work. John K. Fairbank, now Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, battled the Hump, inflation, poverty, and disease as he attempted--rather unsuccessfully, he thinks--to gather information on the Japanese and to distribute microfilmed American publications to Chinese universities...
...World of Giants-have yet to find sponsors. Patti Page and Buddy Bregman, with their variety shows, will be dropped in March; Man with a Camera, a freelance photographer's adventures, was a flop from the start, will also disappear next month. Behind Closed Doors, a cloak-and-daguerreotype, is almost sure to follow. Even laughter is losing out in a dreary season: by May, Uncle Miltie Berle and the Kraft Music Hall part company as planned. George Burns, George Gobel. Ed Wynn, Jackie Gleason will be gone...