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These questions have been asked so often in one form or another that they, and the answers to them, have become almost cliches. But the man who asked-and answered-those above was no cliche-monger. He was the late French Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), a noted paleontologist who was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church to publish his philosophical writings, which have since sparked a posthumous cult of "Teil-hardism" in France. Recently published in the U.S. is a book Teilhard wrote 35 years ago - a spiritual meditation on the cosmology he later developed from...
...caricature. Many gifted mimics imagine that what they can imitate they have understood, but Sellers goes farther than that. His shop steward is the little man with the big dream, and he sees that if there is humor, there is also "enormous sadness" in the grubby little doctrine monger's vision of a workers' paradise somewhere beyond the Vistula: "All them cornfields and ballet in the evening...
Paths of Glory. A passionate polemic against war and the vested disinterest of those who monger it; with Kirk Douglas (TIME...
Paths of Glory. A passionate polemic against war and the vested disinterest of those who monger it; with Kirk Douglas (TIME...
Paths of Glory. A passionate polemic against war and the vested disinterest of those who monger it; with Kirk Douglas (TIME...