Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pagans & Saints. "Christians today are altogether too much like the pagan and heathen world. . . . What the evangelical church needs most is saints. . . . Our salvation after the war is not a new economic or social order nor a political new deal, but . . . Biblical Christianity...
...Easter must closely follow the spring equinox, in accord with the pagan tradition of spring festivals. For convenience, the Council arbitrarily set the equinox on March 21, although astronomically it usually falls on March 20, sometimes on the 19th...
...have been able to put them together very coherently. I have heard enough late nineteenth and early twentieth century works to last me through three seasons. Music of such mediocrity as Lopatnikoff's Sinfonictta Opus 27, Martinu's 1st Symphony, Bennett's "Sights and Sounds," and Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" have been foisted off under the wornout banner of "giving the other fellow a chance," or "Becthoven and Brahms were never appreciated by their contemporaries, either." The program of January 23, for instance, consisted of the two last works mentioned, plus Hindemith's "Nobilissina Visione" Concert Suite, and Tschaikowsky...
...work camp where rabbit morals are encouraged, a state home for unwed mothers (beams a pregnant Fraulein: "I hope I have much pain. I want to suffer for der Führer"). Most awesome shot: thousands of children ringed about a pillar of flame in a midnight, midsummer pagan ceremony, dedicating their lives to Hitler.* Most terrifying shot: a busy Frauen Klinik where women are being sterilized...
...Pagan Nazis still observed the rule: "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." French workers were promised good wages in Germany. Their families in France received compensation from the French Government: six million francs a day for the 150,000 workers designated to make up the first contingent. War-risk insurance for these Frenchmen in Germany was also paid by Vichy. French taxpayers were not only footing the bill for German soldiers policing France, but were helping to pay Frenchmen for working German industries...