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...Proudly Impious. Hedley has a neat answer for Superstition No. 1: "that the content and emphasis of religious thought undergo no change." Says Dr. Hedley, who believes man's knowledge of God can expand as much as his knowledge of science: "The proudly impious yet persist in judging all religion by their own childhood memories . . . Perhaps it is well that [they] did not meet Albert Einstein until they got into Upper Division courses, John Dewey until they entered Teachers' College; or, on as good grounds as they can show for religion, they might have declared physics and philosophy...
...Impious Question. There must be action and example. One way in which U.S. Jews can serve their country and the world, says Finkelstein, is "by bringing people together and helping them understand each other...
...injunction to make "peace between man and his fellow" a part of their religious duties. "When sometimes I am talking about this and someone asks me why we Jews should bear the burden when other groups don't seem interested in doing anything, I consider it an impious question. Jews must see themselves as God intends them to be-His servants and the servants of mankind...
...Such impious bad taste mars these otherwise simple but forced folk tales, which have gone into seven editions in Italy. Author Guareschi is a magazine editor who spent much of the war in German concentration camps and has now been singled out as a class enemy by no less a figure than Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. Guareschi is a whole imagination away from the "Italian James Thurber" that his publishers hopefully label him, but The Little World is a dual Book-of-the-Month Club selection, which ought to please them just as much...
...France Dimanche is equally violent. Every week it hits 565,000 Frenchmen in the eyes with Corre's "American-style journalism." He was among the first to import American tricks: crack rewrite-men sharpen his news, splashy pictures-occasionally nudes-and sassy headlines decorate it, personality angles and impious gibes at national heroes help sell it. And a racy Gallic sauce-far hotter than anything U.S. tabloids dare dish out-flavors it. For balance-or to confuse the reader-Corre has printed Steinbeck on Russia, and serialized such books as Mr. Adam...