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...GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. Miss McCarthy's acerbic portrait of eight Vassar graduates ('33) is bestselling fiction, first-rate sociology about the Depression, and fascinating, previously unrecorded female lore...
This examination of his policies, suggests why, to many Americans, Republican and Democrat alike, Goldwater seems as radical as Norman Thomas. His fundamental axiom comes straight from 18th and 19th century political lore. From his contention that the government serves only as a guardian of the natural laws of competition follow all his domestic positions. But in foreign policy the benign policeman becomes a strong-armed archangel, a Michael brandishing his flaming sword around the globe, turning deaf ears on the cries of the stricken. Goldwater himself admits that his is not the spirit of the times...
...GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. Miss McCarthy's acerbic portrait of eight Vassar graduates ('33) is bestselling fiction, first-rate sociology about the Depression, and fascinating, previously unrecorded female lore...
...prose, and his German translation of the Old Testament is one of history's most successful efforts to re-create the oral quality and poetry of the Hebrew Bible in another language. In his novels and folk tales, he has been responsible for re-creating the legend and lore of the Hasidim-the sect of joyfully pious Jews who flourished in the ghettos of Eastern Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. But Buber is best known for his philosophy of dialogue. It is not only one of the most important modern influences on Jewish thought...
Messkirch is thus easy prey for the Nazis. Indifferent for most of the war, he suddenly gets word that his only son, Otto, has been killed in ambush in France. In his anguish, he turns for guidance to the only philosophy he knows-the Nibelungen lore. "Only blood could atone for the blood of my son," he concludes from his primitive reading, and this judgment is confirmed by the Nazis: "The principle of revenge permeated every aspect of our collective struggle in the Third Reich. Vengeance was the reason why our flying bombs thundered over the enemy's territory...