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Translating all this into Western terms, an army of goose-stepping choir boys had marched this week into an unregenerate old pagan stronghold. Ragamuffin Communists were trying to persuade the choir boys and everyone else to go Red. And opium reared the ugly head of Vice...
...sure it was one of those psalm-singing Fascists, the stinking dogs!" As each of these Communists was supposed to believe with the late Great Lenin that "Religion is the opium of the people," observers could only repeat the old saw, "Most Catholics in Spain are pagan, but not all of them know...
...TIME, Oct. 19). This wish he undoubtedly attained before his final inspection of the heart of the U. S. at Hyde Park. At Inisfada, the Manhasset, L. I. estate of rich and pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, the Roman Cardinal had met the rich and great, pagan and Protestant as well as Catholic. More than one socialite had been so jittery about what to wear that hurried inquiries had been sent to the State Department's Division of Protocol & Conferences, which stipulated morning coats, long-sleeved and high-necked frocks. Many a great lady got a new thrill...
...Nikolai Sokoloff, national director of the Federal Music Project, is to conduct an augmented orchestra of 125 WPA musicians in the Opera House on Sunday evening. The program consists of Weber's Overture to "Euryanthe", Brahms's first Symphony, Loeffler's "Pagan Poem" with Heinrich Gebhard, pianist, as soloist, Romheld's Minuet, and the "Sailors' Dance" from "The Red Poppy" by Gliere. While the concert may not have the technical finish of some of those given by our established orchestra, it does nevertheless merit attention...
First religious journal to plumb the implications of Dr. Buchman's plea was Zion's Herald, influential New England Methodist weekly which editorialized: "Just what would happen if Adolf Hitler, shorn of all his pagan power, were suddenly to become a St. Francis of Assisi? Would not such a conversion immediately mark the end of all bluster, swashbuckling, regimentation, coercion, intolerance, and persecution? Dictatorship would instantly fade away at the touch of Christ, whose whole method was teaching and persuasion...