Word: godless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today, the problem of Germany is our problem, the weakness of Germany our weakness, the sin of Germany our sin, and the future of Germany our future. We must call a halt to this landslide to a low level of Godless living . . . we must leave the worship of false gods...
...please me.' " The state of Tolstoy's own soul puzzled Gorky greatly. "I could never believe that he was an atheist," he wrote Chekhov, "although I felt it, but now . . . I know that he is indeed an atheist and a confirmed one. Am I right?" Gorky, godless himself, was hardly right, but in many respects he saw Tolstoy plain-his "misty preaching" rising from "the unhealthy ferment of the old Russian blood," the man himself "madly and tormentingly beautiful . . . a man of the whole of mankind...
...devout Catholic. He is also a devout esthete and a devout snob. This week, in LIFE, he wrote an open letter to U.S. readers of his best-selling Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7), which showed that these three traits are inseparable parts of his fastidious revulsion from the godless, uncivilized age in which he finds himself. He also revealed that-as some critics of Brideshead had sug-rested-his literary motivation is basically religious...
...Godless Novelists. " 'When can we expect another Brideshead Revisited?' Dear ladies, never. ... I have already shaken off one of the American critics, Mr. Edmund Wilson, who once professed a generous interest in me. He was outraged (quite legitimately by his standards) at finding God introduced into my story. I believe that you can only leave God out by making your characters pure abstractions...
...Atlantic City and San Francisco were eager and able to furnish the space. So was Boston. But there UNO ran into another problem-Russia's Delegate Georgii F. Saksin had blackballed Massachusetts as no fit place for UNO after Superior Court Judge John Swift's recent blast: "Godless Russia has torn the Atlantic Charter to tatters and enslaved millions of our fellow Catholics...