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...centuries, countless thinkers have denounced patriotic pride for one of its unhappiest effects: the irrational hatred that one people aims at a "lesser" people. Arnold Toynbee attributes the death of Greco-Roman civilization to patriotic wars between city states-and failure to establish international law. Early Christians rejected patriotism on the ground that man's obligations are to God, and after that to all of humanity. A Jesuit general once called patriotism "the most certain death of Christian love." There is no question that chauvinism-hyperpatriotism-can be induced in any country, including a democracy, where truth...
...with Manhattan's Sculptor Paul Manship. By the 1930s, he had won some renown for his idealized, 8-ft.-tall statue of Babe Ruth, his heroic busts of F.D.R., Cordell Hull and other demigods of the New Deal. In the 1940s, he moved on to more remote Greco-Roman themes, explaining that "myths are good because they give you form and a grand story. I don't want only form; I want philosophy, love. You can't make a statue of a man and a woman copulating, but you can use a woman and a swan. Then...
Some of Meadows' bad luck was still trailing along with him. About 18 of the works earlier donated by him to S.M.U., including three attributed to El Greco and two each to Rubens and Van Dyck, may have to have their name tags changed, according to S.M.U. Dean of Arts Kermit Hunter. Meadows is content to let the experts thrash it out. Nothing, he feels, must stand in the way of satisfying the "ever-increasing need to expand the cultural resources of the Southwest-to go hand in hand with the vast technical and industrial development of the area...
AWAY WE GO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Comic George Carlin takes off on a new summertime musical variety hour with two Buddys, Greco and Rich, at his side. Sheila MacRae is the guest on the premiere show...
...Image. First there was the bright 20-year-old, freelancing formula features at $10 apiece to the Toronto Star Weekly. Next came Hemingway at 23, foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, filing color stories on the Greco-Turkish war and the Genoa Economic Conference, along with vignettes of trout fishing in Germany and the "king business" in Europe. Some of that early stuff was basic Hemingway: clear as glass. He attended a prestigious press conference given by Benito Mussolini. Il Duce "sat at his desk reading a book. His face was contorted into the famous frown. He was registering Dictator...