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...Thank you for placing the article in the International section. Perhaps there, amidst the political news, rather than under Theater, Books or Religion, it will be more thoughtfully read by those decent godless people whose vision of world salvation is limited to the United Nations...
...play the British, having captured a New Hampshire town, decide to hang a prominent rebel as an example to the townspeople. But for the parson they are seeking (Victor Jory) they mistake a godless scamp (Evans) who is drinking tea with the parson's wife (Marsha Hunt). The scamp, however, insists on carrying out the imposture, and in the gaudiest traditions of melodrama has his neck in the noose when deliverance comes...
...Vintage, Author West explores two worlds: 1) an imagined purgatory which borrows nothing from such Godfearing models as Dante's Inferno but has much in common with the Godless statism of George Orwell's 1084; 2) the real British middle-class world of John Wallis seen through numerous flashbacks. Neither exploration is wholly successful. Wallis' purgatory, with its concentration-camp pall and forced pleasure-resort atmosphere is skillfully but too obviously contrived. Wallis' real-life experience, with its high quota of banal woman trouble, comes close to being boring...
...became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings. "As a newspaperman he could publish translations from Gautier and Loti that were daring for the time, besides original sketches that the magazines would have rejected as being godless or indecent (or simply overwritten...
Morton, however, is very successful in his defense of the contemplative vocation and in his scorn for the modern Godless civilization. "The Quickening of St. John the Baptist" likens the members of a cloistered order to the unborn Baptist waiting in his mother's womb for the coming of Christ's mother, Mary, with the announcement of the anticipated birth of God, the Son. The speechless Trappists and Carmelites are "sealed in the dark and waiting to be born;" they are the sentinels that the world must post to hear "the first far drums of Christ...