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Emotional arguments for God came into vogue, and an age that was swept with religious revivals looked to John Wesley's "heart strangely warmed." Highbrow believers harked back to Blaise Pascal, who found no God in nature; Pascal put his faith in mystical experience and the idea that God's existence coincides with human aspiration...
...word modern does not mean in publishing what it means in the used-car business. Some of these novels are definitely vintage models which first startled the highbrow highways more than a quarter century ago. Nor do they necessarily provide a joy ride. In Joyce's The Dead, the reader will find a depressing Christmas party in lace-curtain Dublin; in Melville's Billy Budd, Foretopman, the hanging of a sailor aboard a British man-of-war of the Hornblower period; in Porter's Noon Wine, the madness and death of a farmhand and the suicide...
...indeed. Jazz, which used to account for a tiny percentage of sales among the major record companies, has become a big moneymaker for the big labels. Across the U.S. there are also some two dozen companies making a comfortable profit by putting out nothing but jazz. Even such diehard highbrow companies as Westminster and Vanguard (The Bach Guild) have turned out money-making jazz albums. At Victor, which has just hired its first full-time jazz executive, a jazz-type record called Inside Souter-Finegan for six months outsold everything in the imposing Red Seal catalogue except Mario Lanza...
...Times: "American films as a whole proclaim that . . . the American way of life [comes] as near to perfection as is possible . . . There is much value in a minority report . . . Powerful, though perhaps prejudiced, is the case as pleaded by [Salt]." But the film did little box office at the highbrow Academy Cinema, due partly to the presence of Communist pamphlet-passers. "To put it bluntly," complained Manager Francis Howard, "Salt's laid...
...homes? Neuroses? "The answer is a sound Chris tian upbringing." High divorce rate? Alcoholism? Disintegrating ethics? "We need a firm Christian morality." Is science getting out of hand? Are art and literature aimless? "Christianity gives the only aim." Communism? "Only Christianity can defeat a false religion." A more complex, highbrow version of this mood is expressed by British Historian Arnold Toynbee, who concludes his massive, ten-volume A Study of History* with the finding that the West can be saved from atomic war and utter downfall only by a renewed Christian faith...