Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three cheers for Mrs. Margaret Knight and her BBC trilogy on scientific humanism and "Morals Without Religion" [TIME, Jan. 24]. A breath of humanistic fresh air would do a world of good in our country, where the traditional orthodoxies have made a farce of morality...
...doubt, Mrs. Knight must belong to the school that believes our ancestors were apes (if Christ is a legend, what else can you believe?), that our world came into being from revolving gaseous matter. Now if she could explain who put the swirling gas into existence, I might discover a grain of truth in her fantastic statements...
...criticize the BBC for carrying Mrs. Knight's broadcasts, for she has a right to say what she will. Christianity has survived far worse dangers, and if she gives us an incentive to defend our faith, so much the better...
...Legal Knight. The opening situation is intriguing enough. Anson Page, the lawyer hero, is living quietly in Manhattan with an apartment too expensive and a wife too intelligent for his own good. He has finally worked up to a kind of wary chumminess with the senior partner of his law firm, and has almost domesticated his fear of failure (sometimes, though, the beast still growls dangerously from the chimney corner). This somewhat nervous idyl is broken by a man Anson Page has never even met-a great and aging American novelist called Garvin Wales, literary master of Southern sordidness...
...bottom of this seemingly fantastic accusation? A lawyer, of course. Which lawyer? Well-it happens that the great novelist and his dragon of a wife live on a small island near Anson Page's home town of Pompey's Head. That makes Page the obvious legal knight for the dangerous mission...