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Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton passionately accepted the orthodoxy that Kierkegaard scorned. A devout member of the Church of England from his youth, at the age of 48 he became a Roman Catholic. But though he accepted and stoutly defended every word of Roman Catholic dogma, he denounced the economic orthodoxy of modern capitalism...
...more strongly. Said Socialist Pietro Nenni last week: "We haven't any colonies nor navy nor army nor territorial ambitions. We are today's arch-isolationists." However, unlike old-line U.S. isolationists, Europeans could not afford to say "Let them fight it out among themselves." Even a devout Communist forgot himself sufficiently to tell a TIME correspondent last week: "A conflict between you and Russia would be disaster for Italy. We'd be occupied by both of you, first by the Cossacks, then by Negroes...
Parisians were bewildered because the monkish composer, a devout, 38-year-old Catholic, punctuates his pious music with bird calls and Hindu rhythms. Instead of repose, listeners felt spastic jerkiness; instead of exalting sonorities, they heard grinding dissonance. After a performance of his Three Short Liturgies of the Divine Presence, which is scored (among other things) for a xylophone and two dried gourds with rattling seeds, one Paris critic snorted: "African witchcraft rather than Christian music...
...brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan Douglas) ; makes a pass (unsuccessful) at devout Frances Dee; contracts a convenience marriage with Widow Dvorak over the scarcely cold body of her husband; frames her with Diplomat Warren William in order to be free to marry little Miss Douglas; buys a title and, ultimately, gets killed in a duel...
...also scorned by them. Yogananda, born plain Mukunda Lai Ghosh 46 years ago, is the son of the vice president of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. Father Ghosh scorned money, food and sex, spent his free hours meditating, with his legs crossed. Both father & mother Ghosh were devout practitioners of the basic tenet of yoga: absolute discipline of the body and senses through concentration on the idea of union with God. "Your father and myself," said Mrs. Ghosh, "live together as man and wife only once a year, for the purpose of having children" (they had eight...