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Critic Malraux is not always clear about what he means by "the absolute," but generally it comes down to a matter of religion; he believes Christianity is in a twilight stage. For him, a "little pseudo-Gothic church on Broadway, tucked away amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age. On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb...
What happens to Langrish after that, in The Image of a Drawn Sword, proves that British Novelist Jocelyn Brooke can create as violent fictional disturbances as anyone now writing in English. Compared to it, his first tense little gothic novel, The Scapegoat (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950), was a mild emotional debauch...
With none of the usual gaseous explosions, gothic orations or protracted strikes, the soft-coal operators and John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers last week signed a new 14-month contract. The miners got a 20?-an-hour pay boost, and the operators got ready to raise coal prices as much as 25? a ton at the pits...
...Bridge has other connections with Harvard besides the name. Its brick facing resembles that used in the Houses and its piers will bear gothic E's for Eliot. The middle arch will be 100 feet wide--largest on the Crimson--to give the crews space on the upper river...
...largest in all Viet Nam, a small boy ran ahead of Les américains waving a big new Stars & Stripes made for the occasion in the hardworking local flag factory. A six-piece brass band was on hand and a demonstrative crowd stood by, cheering wildly. In the gothic-style church, a choir of little girls dressed in white chanted, "Our Lady, pity Viet Nam and bring peace." Then the straggly-bearded parish priest. Pere Luc, presented an embroidered silk panel to his visitors and in the same breath asked for his dearest wish: 20 to 30 Sten guns...