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Last week, with the need for discretion terminated, Churchman Guthrie with his penetrating eyes twinkling beneath his feral eyebrows, told a reporter: "There is no God. There never was." This he proceeded to qualify in the veiled words which had made him, if not the greatest U. S. religious mystic, at least a mystic who got himself thoroughly talked about in the press. For St. Marks, most of whose socialite parishioners long ago moved to more fashionable districts, Dr. Guthrie feared the fate of certain London churches which he said are obliged to pay people to attend worship. He delved...
Both Over African Jungles and Speak to the Earth are frivolous works compared with Africa Dances. Geoffrey Gorer, 30-year-old English writer, traveled from Dakar through French West Africa to Dahomey and the Gold Coast, with Feral Benga, famed Parisian Negro dancer, who wanted to stage a Negro ballet. The travelers saw some extraordinary native dancing, including the performance of adagio dancers who danced with children and knives, throwing knives that seemed to pass through the children in midair. But most of Africa Dances is devoted to realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration...
...Spain upon which Francisco José Goya y Lucientes first opened his feral eyes was carelessly crumbling in vice and cruelty. Its population had dropped in 300 years from 12,000,000 to approximately half. The Inquisition had burned 30,000, imprisoned ten times as many. The court aped the worst of France. Duchesses dressed as servants and snooped through the streets or tore their mantillas fighting for title to a bullfighter. One nobleman explained his kindness to his servants by inquiring: "How can I be sure my real father is not among them?" There were riots every...