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...conception of the Virgin, her mouth open in a stifled cry of the world's sufferings. I started off with the usual base, then despite myself, in the grip of a driving force, my hammer hit on my chisel. It was out of control. I was forced to obey orders which were not of my own inspiration. I can't say it's really mine...
...Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature, and make it obey." The speaker is Simon Bolivar, the South American liberator; the time, 1812; the occasion, an earthquake which, by some terrible stroke of malice, has shattered the cities controlled by Venezuela's rebellious republicans but left untouched the cities loyal to the Spanish king. A royalist monk shouts to the dazed people of Caracas that the cause of their misfortune stands before them: Bolivar. The crowd begins to seethe menacingly. Without a word, Bolivar strides up to the monk and strikes him down with the flat...
...marten." For four years, the Federal Trade Commission has been trying to get Congress to outlaw fancy names for common furs, last week finally won out when President Truman signed such a bill. Under it, the FTC will issue a "Fur Products Name Guide," which furriers will have to obey, e.g., black Manchurian dogs will be known as black Manchurian dogs, and not as "Belgium lynx" or "black poiret...
...arithmetic. Polytheism assumes several divine wills, divergent, possibly conflicting. The polytheist is not surprised the world seems capricious, illogical, anarchic. The man who says there is one God also says that there is one divine will and one truth. Nature, somehow, must make sense. Men are obliged to obey...
...huge outdoor rallies, with the slogan Wir Sind Dock Brüder (despite everything, we are brothers), the pilgrims listened to sermons. The tone, on the surface, was nonpolitical. This was in keeping with German Protestantism's policy toward Communism: don't seek martyrdom; outwardly obey the authorities; maintain the church organization in the hope...