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Paul Klee's artistic babbling and cooing was not unique. All over Europe artists had suddenly developed a subconscious itch. High priest of the cult was Viennese Psychologist Sigmund Freud, who had taken the human mind apart and discovered that a lot of its thinking was controlled by buried childhood memories. Surrealism was not yet fashionable. But writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, "expressionist" painters like Max Ernst and Vassily Kandinsky were already scratching their nether brains, hypnotizing themselves into trances, trying to get their inchoate feelings into print and paint...
...swam for weakness. . . ." Yet always his work grew better, for mental activity and creative power often increase with the disease. Stevenson's travels through Provence, U. S. mountains, the South Seas to his Samoan grave suggest not only a search for healthful air but the consumptive's itch for vagabondage...
...faults are obvious. ... I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking. . . . But there never has been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency. . . . Let me quote Emerson: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...
Toyohiko Kagawa, Japan's No. 1 Japanese Christian, has shown no itch to become a martyr by protesting his Govern ment's drive against Christianity in Japan (TIME, Sept. 9), but nonetheless news last week leaked from Japan: last month Japanese police pounced on Christian Kagawa, jailed him in the best Martin Niemöller style...
...Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. When he succeeded to the see in 1921, St. John's consisted of an abrupt stub: a Romanesque choir and crossing. Bishop Manning (with the aid of professional Money Raisers Tamblyn & Brown) infected New York City with a cathedral-building itch, scratched up some $15,000,000, transformed his Romanesque stub into a soaring Gothic pile. Bishop Manning will be remembered as a cathedral builder. He may also be remembered as a bishop who had little luck with his deans...