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Laymen for whom Stravinsky's music holds an almost pagan quality are surprised to hear that he is ardently religious, says his prayers and goes regularly to the Russian Orthodox Church. But even with his faith and fervor Stravinsky has remained a rabid hypochondriac, always worrying over his own and everyone else's health. His nervous hope last week was that U. S. audiences would be more understanding than the customs officer who picked a package of wordless scores from his luggage and asked him in what language he had written them...
...course will be a study of the development of moral ideas in Europe beginning with a study of Greek and pagan ethics. Other topics to be discussed will include ethics of Christianity, ethics of Middle Ages, ethical significance of the Reformation, liberalism and democracy, nationalism and its ethics, laissez-faire ethics, scepticism and tolerance...
...increasing looseness in marital relations and the scandals that are given legal sanction by certain of our courts. The menace of Reno and the appeal to foreign courts have made us a byword among the nations, and given us an unenviable distinction quite without parallel, even among so-called pagan peoples...
...brothers and nuns are laboring efficiently among 1,835,030 natives." Thumbing through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese priests, a pagan temple, a Chinese junk, a U. S. pickaninny. Of all the well-chosen, well-reproduced photographs, the one most likely to cause pause is captioned: "Taxi? Here is the Mongolian version of the taxicab, with its toothless and carefree Jehu. Outer Mongolia presents many problems. . . . But its missioners watch...
Since the entire German Press is rigidly controlled, Pagan Hoppe could never have issued such a blast without authority. It stood unchallenged for over a fortnight while foreign furore grew. Suddenly last week the Hitler Youth discovered that August Hoppe had "falsely posed as the Hitler Youth press chief." It was further discovered that Hoppe had been expelled from the Hitler Youth. In a final effort to appease Christians, Pagan Hoppe was berated for his "heinous attacks on Christianity," and ordered to desist for one month, during which time his pagan organ Nordland was suppressed...