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...theory worth knowing." But a frightened and hungry U.S. public had no stomach for ridicule, and ridicule had always been the popular basis for the Mencken boom. By the late '30s, many bright young people barely knew who Mencken was. To the old campus hero that was a mortal hurt, but he never changed. Wrote he: "On all known subjects, from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five years...
...play, which has appeared on Broadway, concerns a witch-boy who is allowed to become a mortal if his lover will remain faithful to him for a year...
...same party seldom stir up anything more exciting than pointed remarks and a few hard looks. But Miss Louise Tinsley Steinman, 27, daughter of Publisher J. Hale Steinman of Lancaster, Pa., got sensational results in the game last week. She asked both Columnist Drew Pearson and his mortal enemy Senator Joe McCarthy to a little dinner she was giving at the fashionable Sulgrave Club...
...commonplaces of the 20th Century that modern artists have not met it; most of them-in their modern preoccupation with the mortal nature of man-have not even tried. Yet, as the century reached midpoint, there was evidence that here & there, though with only debatable degrees of success, creative men in the Christian world have been turning to the old challenge and the old theme. Among them, in literature, have been Novelist Graham Greene and Poet T. S. Eliot. In music, such composers as Igor Stravinsky and Francis Poulenc (TIME, Nov. 27) have attempted the awesome task of setting...
...books and studied, and soon I understood that Communism was the mortal enemy of our society, which is based first on the family community and then on the village community. I decided that Communism is a terrible thing to fight if you don't know what you want. But if you organize against Communism, it is easy to beat, because it cannot live beside truth in the hearts of the people...