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Divorced. Linda Gaddy Bilbo; by Mississippi's U. S. Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo; in Poplarville, Miss. Grounds: cruel & inhuman treatment of the Senator...
...Lateran Treaties of 1929, has been on good terms with Benito Mussolini. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has almost never spoken openly against the Government. Last week, however, it spoke sharply against antiSemitism: "Toward the Israelites we are not only extremely anti-Christian and anti-civil but inhuman. . . . Propaganda against Jews assumes, wherever it is organized and led, proportions unworthy of 20 centuries of Christian civilization!" That, at a time when semi-official Government newspapers had been indulging in anti-Semitic propaganda, was strong talk...
Life at Eton is full of strange and inhuman punishments for Lower Boys. They tremble at a summons from "The Library," dread the tutor's ticket which carries penalties ranging from a sharp look, or writing 100 lines of Latin, to a sound tanning. But Eton's humbling birch rods, fagging and games are no match for the educational effect of Eton's snobbish traditions. Today it is still true of its products that "Etonians as a class are not popular with non-Etonians...
...made a hateful one. He is aptly called humanitarian who hates humanity. He is working for a goal and is wrapped up in an ideology that make him renounce friendship, patriotism, love, and self-interest. But the fallacy is that he is not only impersonal, but also inhuman; he is not even concerned, to all appearances with humanity. The familiar analogy between communism and religion is introduced, but a contradiction in the stand of the extreme radical is posited; he seeks something beyond material things while denying the existence of any such realm of being...
...hurried description of municipal squalor. The passage is undigested and out of control. The professional coupleteer such as Gay or Churchill does not pamper his polemic with unadulterated description. Sentence (6) impulsively reassumes a satirical tone, but inasmuch as the preceding description has not been made convincingly inhuman enough, Hillyer's conclusion has a fatuous unearned air, lacking inevitability. The final line projects certain rhyming dexterity, although what it implies is that if Ariel is as true as Caliban then Caliban is as true as Ariel, a conclusion counter to all the previous satirical trend...