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Ending with Absinthe. As might be expected, Leigh looks on modern art with loathing and dismay. His conclusion: it is all an indirect result of absinthe-drinking in mid-19th century France, which "ate away the brains of the French aristocracy and brought vulgar folk into control of the salons and everything else." The vulgar folk, Leigh reasons, thought everything that was different was good, and they slowly imposed their love of novelty and disdain for nature-painting on the whole world of art. Some of today's artists, huffs Painter Leigh, bristling his snowy mustache, have sunk...
...Protestants, concentrated in the East, must bear the brunt of the Communist persecution. So far, much of the persecution has been indirect. It takes the form of noisy Sunday youth meetings, or local Red leaders scheduling "potato-bug Sundays," where farmers are ordered into the fields to pick bugs at exactly the time of church services. The Communists have also banned religious instruction in the schools, and snipped away at the pastors' stipends, still supplied under the law by German local governments. But their open hostility is increasing. Forty-six pastors, like the Marienkirche's Reinhold George, have...
...black trains crowd after crowd jostles and fights past grimy turnstiles into a world of pale blue walls, glass doors, chrome-plated escalators, and emaciated salesgirls. Plump ladies fill the aisles, new mothers fondle bibs, middle-aged housewives try on the latest fashions illuminated by indirect lighting, and dirty-faced boys in brand new shoes follow Mama from counter to counter...
...Europe. It has often been misinterpreted by its friends as the right of tenure. It has been erroneously related to freedom of speech. But freedom of speech is basically political in its justification; without it there can be no free elections, no political life. Academic freedom has only an indirect relation with the political arena. Its true home is with the freedom of religion, ever the most sacred of the freedoms of the Western World. A professor is, by his very title, a man who professes. What does he profess? The truth as he sees it. Not Hitler...
...want to start an open war against us until they have got such overwhelming power that the result would not be in doubt. So their strategy has been to pick up one country after another by getting control of its government, by political warfare and by indirect aggression...