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Giggle at First. The British are famous for their toleration of eccentrics, but this can be intolerable to the eccentric himself if he is a dedicated exhibitionist. Bernard Kops has been a poor Jewish evacuee from the blitzed East End of London, a waiter, an actor in terrible road companies...
The more he was questioned by Butts's attorney, former Notre Dame End William Schroder, the more mistakes Griffith remembered from the article. He denied that he had ever used a play called the "88 pop," a maneuver Butts was accused of reporting to Bryant. He denied that his...
The dreamer was three years old and he loved the gentleman Jesus. Then came his dream of the phallus-king. The dreamer wandered through a stone palace under the meadow, and there, behind a curtain heavy as earth, stood the king, his one good eye gleaming up from his faceless...
After four days of bloodshed, the rioting finally petered out, and cautious United Nations troops, who had not dared intervene while the fighting was at its height, moved in and totted up the frightful cost. The toll: at least 70 dead, and scores injured.
What they all find valuable in the New Leader is an opportunity for in-depth analysis. Niebuhr, comparing Nazism and Communism, concluded that "Communism is infinitely more dangerous" because it is "a frightful simplification of the Messianic dreams which have haunted Western civilization for ages," sometimes with "frightful results." Foreign...