Word: paganization
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Your reciprocal pat on the pagan back of the godless editor of McCall's Magazine [TIME, Jan. 6] seems to be a race to see who can be the most daring, the boldest, and the most shocking to moral standards, Christian conduct, and American tradition...
...soon as many leading churchmen wavered, let down, hemmed, hawed, compromised, beat about the bush about adultery, and remarriage of adulterers and adulteresses, contrary to Holy Writ, the secular, more appropriately called the pagan press, let loose with all caliber guns...
Thomas' poetic ancestors include druids, sun worshipers, fertility ritualists, wizards of Welsh folklore, psalmists and hymnists, the Bible. To this complex half-pagan, half-devout inheritance, Thomas has added more up-to-date influences-the intense experience of his boyhood in the Welsh countryside, his passionate faith in the Freudian conception of life as a struggle between the desire to procreate and the desire to find oblivious peace in death. Wholly absent from his poems are humor and political ideology: he reduces his rich and strange harvest of influences and beliefs simply to a "record of my individual struggle...
...British Government-a Labor Government!-justified this brutal business? And why has the public for so long so complacently accepted the Government's policy? "Without the labor of the war prisoners, we shall never be able to harvest our crops." True, perhaps, but what different justification did pagan Rome give for the slave system which finally did so much to destroy...
...M.P.s and the Colonial Office. One of the M.P.s quoted scholarly books to the effect that human blood had not been ceremonially used in the Gold Coast for a century, and pointed out that some of the accused were Christians who would not have been tolerated at a pious pagan ceremony. The Colonial Office icily retorted that human blood was still preferred and that nominal Christianity means nothing to African ritual phlebotomists...