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Bell quotes a letter received recently from a friend who had moved to a new parish: "The church here has everything, from an exquisite chapel to a gymnasium and a manual-training shop for young Episcopalians to enjoy themselves in. There is money all over the place . . . It's impressive all right; but ... it seems more like a social club." There are many such rich parishes, writes Bell, in which Christ is genteelly revered and His upsetting utterances muffled. "The vulgarity of the Gospels is concealed by the quaintness of the King James version; the dynamite of the Eucharist...
...schooling for the first time. Children would go through six years of primary school heavily dosed with "learning by doing" methods. After that, there would be a two-year orientation program during which pupils would be thoroughly tested for aptitudes and abilities. At 14, pupils would branch off to manual trade schools, technical schools, or university preparatory schools...
...others. In 1946 had come Animal Farm, a merciless satire on the Soviet regime that was as enlightening as it was hilarious, as persuasive as it was just. Even now, with reams of confessions by disillusioned revolutionists in the record, Animal Farm (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946) remains the best manual on the doublecross of Stalinism...
...Jima (Republic) is a war picture that bristles and booms with enough clips from official combat films to give its audience a realistic touch of battle fatigue. The rest of it is just plain fatiguing; the plot has no more freshness or emotional tug than a military manual, and it is peopled by a movie-hardened cast of characters who have served too many hitches on Hollywood's back-lot battlefields...
...Europe or Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. From Winston Churchill came Their Finest Hour, the stately, grandly stated second volume of his World War II memoirs. Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery went on with his battle report in El Alamein to the River Sangro, but its army-manual style limited its appeal chiefly to professional soldiers. A more dramatic soldier's story, important and unfortunately neglected, was Polish Lieut. General Anders' account of his army's sacrifices and betrayals, An Army in Exile. U.S. big brass, hounded by publishers and eager ghostwriters, combed memories, diaries...