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...crux of his philosophy rests on this concept of the life-enhancing work of art. These objects were the noblest achievements of mankind and of the utmost importanced for the attainment of the Good Life. In "Duveen," S.N. Behrman quotes B.B. referring to a painting of Il Salvatore Benedicente owned by the Louvre. It gives an especially arresting example of B.B.'s application of his philosophy to works...
...holds a keener edge than most. After his fine, mordant first novel. The Oldest Confession, he did a few handstands to attract attention, and the result was The Manchurian Candidate (TIME, July 6). an impressively comic but chaotic novel whose message-all is vanity and venality, and even the noblest of men knows not the way to the washroom-was not always audible over the author's sousaphone accompaniment. The present book appears to contain the same admonition, though this is by no means certain. The satirist's voice is heard, but the words are indistinct. Worse...
...good") is perhaps only an outward and visible sign. The real point of objectivism is rousing unembarrassed self-interest. For the best man is a tough-minded egoist, "a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." Firmly convinced that her own one absolute is reason, Author Rand has gone so far as to boast: "I have never had an emotion that I couldn't account for." Less fortunate people, she suggested last week at Yale, can blame Immanuel Kant. Just...
...synod, Pope John offered some fatherly advice to the priests of Rome. "We are grieved," he said, "that some people should talk excessively about the possibility, or even the convenience, of the Catholic Church's giving up what has been for centuries, and still remains, one of the noblest and purest glories of her priesthood"-i.e., celibacy. He urged priests to pay close attention to head, heart and tongue: to study all their lives, to fill their hearts with love, and to know when to speak and when to keep silent, "a sign of wisdom and sacerdotal perfection...
...their standards, to be as content with their lot as humans can be." To India's Parliament, he spoke of "a great awakening" in which the world's peoples have come to recognize "that only under a rule of moral law can all of us realize our deepest and noblest aspirations." Without mentioning Communism by name, he defined it as the dead hand of tyranny, pointed to a free-world future based on economic order and law. At Delhi University, he said: "A reliable framework of law, grounded in the general principles recognized by civilized nations, is of crucial importance...