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Enthusiasm, Knox decides, is basically the "revolt of Platonism against the Aristotelian mise en scene of traditional Christianity . . . Your Platonist, satisfied that he had formed his notion of God without the aid of syllogisms or analogies, will divorce reason from religion . . . the God who reveals Himself interiorly claims a wholly interior worship as his right" instead of observing traditional Christianity's balance of doctrine and emphasis...
...keeps telling him that he is helping to save the Hebrides folklore from oblivion. At 74, Angus wants only to be a good crofter, to keep to his own sgeulachlan, and to tell of oldtime lovers and rogues and kings, ending each story with the very same words: "dhealaich mise rithe"-"and so I parted with them...
Realistic backgrounds and some almost surrealistic horror highlight the photography which is the cardinal virtue of this Claudette Colbert whodunit. It is this superior camera work which gives that cerie mise en scene all important to a psychological mystery...
GIVE Us OUR DREAM (298 pp.)-Arthémise Goertz-Whitflesey...
Arthémise Goertz, who wrote this Literary Guild selection for July, is fortyish and kindly, and she has had her quota of happiness, excitement and tragedy. Her New Orleans childhood was in the "German tradition of discipline and duty." She graduated from Tulane University magna cum laude, took with her a Phi Beta Kappa key and her Spanish professor as a husband. Later she lived in Mexico, wrote a book about it (South of the Border), then went to Japan on a scholarship. The day after Pearl Harbor the Japs made her a civilian war prisoner. She came back...