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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lara has his own explanation for the way his love lyrics catch on. "In all my compositions," he says, "there is always a certain woman synthesized." Many of the women who have inspired his lyrics are unknown, but movie actress María Félix, second of his three...
In London, Mrs. Elsie Bambridge, fiftyish, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, clamped down on publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain...
Politics & Power. Despite basic agreement on principle, there is wide divergence on the subject of practical politics. "While we fully agree," says Barrois, "on the danger of a godless society, a godless state, and a godless school, we strenuously object to [Catholics'] jockeying for strategic positions so as to...
"The centralized power of the Roman Catholic Church, its strong international organization, its methods of authority, explain partly its effectiveness," Barrois concludes. "Looking back on our divided Protestantism, we feel, by contrast, weary and powerless. Seeking for a remedy, we may be tempted to copy the methods of the Roman...
What British Artist Eric Gill meant, when he wrote those words, was that he could see no common ground between his own religious sense and the kind of subjective, self-celebrating Art that moderns most admire. Bearded, bespectacled Gill never believed in Art. He believed in the arts-"with a...