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...love, discovered Editor Leach-women approximately twice as much so as men. But: "It is a love of the mind rather than of the senses. . . . They still write about willow trees and the lovers' moon over the meadows, but their moon has no mushy tears in its eyes. . . . Freud has been dethroned. . . . Companionship and sympathetic understanding are the two goals which the new poets are seeking." Wrote a Pennsylvania boy: Do we love the less That our love is quiet? That we find heart-peace Though we miss heart-riot...
...their sect, "made up of separatist ministers and isolationist churches," is too individualistic. From Professor Reinhold Niebuhr they heard praise of sane optimism which comes after despair and suffering. From Rev. John Haynes Holmes they heard that contemporary civilization is collapsing, although it has produced four great men: Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Gandhi. Northern Baptists numbering 3,500 met in Rochester, N. Y. As their new president they elected Dr. Avery Albert Shaw, president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio and president of the Baptist Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board. The convention voted to merge its diffuse budgets and to combine...
...Holmes selection of the four "immortals" of the present decaying age, whom he considers to be Einstein, Freud, Lenin, and Gandhi, only make one change from a smile to bursting laughter. Mr. Holmes' parlor-pseudo liberalism seems to amount to mere naivete with the added assumption that his audiences are credulous enough to be swayed by his effusions. Mr. Holmes is well qualified to compete with Will Durant in this respect...
...Economics is a subject of vast and increasing importance. Economic motives lie very deep, perhaps even deeper than Freud conceives of sex motives as lying; for if the perpetuity of the race rests on sex motives, then the continuing existence of the race rests on economic motives. They underlie and color all our conduct. Such a fundamental subject certainly should be taught with thoroughness. The question is how to teach it with thoroughness...
PAST MASTERS - Thomas Mann - Knopf ($2.50). Collected lectures on Wagner. Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Freud et al. by Germany's foremost novelist...