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...Earth's Disorder. One of the more trenchant discussions of the subject has appeared in the French magazine Esprit, written by its editor, Personalist Philosopher Emmanuel Mounier. Like Easton, Mounier believes that neither the atom bomb nor any technical invention can have the slightest significance for the Christian interpretation of history. God's ending of the world and man's ending of it would be as different in essence as the setting of the sun and the snuffing of a candle...
Roosevelt was moved to write: "I cannot help feeling just a little sorry for Henry Wallace. . . . The subtle French 'esprit,' with the addition of the Communist tinge, is something entirely unpredictable which I doubt our friend Mr. Wallace has ever had to handle before. . . . In France, I fear for you, Don Quixote-you are indeed tilting at windmills...
Those students who bother to investigate, however, will discover in the Department of the Classics a proportionately higher number of headline professors than in any other department, a tutorial system unsurpassed elsewhere in the College, and a sort of esprit de corps within the small group of Classics concentrators which is hard or impossible to find in most of the larger and more "useful" departments...
...Temps et la Vie, L'homme devant la Science, and L'Avenir de L'Esprit (which ran through 22 French editions in eight months during the occupation...
Apprehended in his Claverly Hall rooms by a posse of newspapermen, L. Esprit Gaulois, master of Cambridge illuminant, versed the opinion yesterday that "Gathering rosebuds while ye may should pay off come Valentine...