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Dean Sperry's soft-voiced denunciation of non-liturgical sloppiness in the U.S.: "The Prayer Book, with its implicit pledge that . . . the offices shall be read decently and in order, is probably the greatest single source of attraction to non-Episcopalians. In the worship of the non-liturgical churches far too many of our transactions are accomplished in disorder, and occasionally approach aesthetic indecency. Popular taste in America has improved appreciably in recent years. . . . This improved taste penalizes churches, particularly in the great cities, which persist in the cults of ugliness, untidiness and sentimentalism...
Tweedledum &Tweedledumber. Most U.S. readers will see in the struggle of Stalin and Trotsky a fight between ins & outs, a Tweedledum and Tweedledee dogfight for power, in which Trotsky, despite his brilliance, proved the Tweedledumber. The clash of their personalities, all but inevitable, was implicit even in the antagonists' physical appearance. Trotsky, haranguing his troops, his outsize, intellectual, goateed head cocked above his flaring military coat, looked like a blend of a broker who has just made a killing on the Paris bourse and an actor from the Yiddish Art Theater. Stalin, with his low forehead, ferally cautious manner...
...President went on to his major pronouncement: "The immediate goal of our foreign policy is to support the United Nations to the utmost." There was a feeble cheer, a few seconds of applause for this implicit answer to Winston Churchill's call for an Anglo-American fraternity of interests against Russia. The U.S. pledges its power behind the United Nations' "right to insist that the sovereignty and integrity of the Near and Middle East must not be threatened by coercion or penetration." No response from the crowd...
...Yelling on the Fairground." Blum was helped not a whit by Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, who tactlessly made explicit what everyone knew was implicit in the Blum mission-the contention that unless France got U.S. aid she would likely turn to Communism. Said Bidault: if France does not get a big loan "we would almost inevitably be compelled to organize our economic policy in other directions." The world knew "other directions" meant Moscow-ward...
...what is fear? It is conceit: Knowing sufficient of the future to dislike it. And insufficient to ignore it, it is self-love implicit...