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...That Peggy Guggenheim is no one-ism woman, TIME is well aware. But Surrealist Pope Ernst's permanent residence in Peggy Guggenheim's mansion makes it Surrealism's Vatican...
Unlike his two Congressional colleagues, lank, angular Hamilton Fish wants to stay in. Ham had hawked his brand of isolation ism far & wide; had worked hard against the President, against England; often, before Pearl Harbor, advocated a negotiated peace. Stepping out of Joachim von Ribbentrop's plane in 1939, Fish opined that Germany's claims were "just." Two months ago he finally went before a District Court to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, Nazi propaganda agent, and there let the blame fall on his secretary, George Hill, already in jail for perjury in the matter...
Most notable of last week's surrealist shows was that of 51-year-old, white-haired German-born Max Ernst, who joined the ism 18 years ago, and has since become its master technician and high priest. Surrealist Ernst depicted a rock-candy fairyland peopled with crawling monsters and dismembered nudes in feathery fur coats...
Sons o' Fun is a Hellzapop,pin that has stopped sleeping in its underwear: a trifle more class, a trifle less roughhouse. It won't make any new converts to heathen ism, but there should be no backsliders from the enormous ranks of the faithful...
When Leo wrote in 1891 the great enemy was Socialism; when Pius wrote in 1931 it was Communism; in 1941 it is Naziism-and the Catholic Church seems well aware that some ism or other will always tempt working people away from the creed of Christ the Carpenter unless Christianity has a better message for them. Said the late famed British Monsignor William Francis Barry...