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...This pious gravity was not echoed, however, in New York. "Come home, Bill," jeered the tabloid Daily News in a one-line editorial, "nothing is forgiven." City Council President Rudolph Halley said he hoped that O'Dwyer would either come back voluntarily or be brought back to testify on the city scandals. But this was mostly talk. If O'Dwyer chooses to stay in Mexico-as he has strongly indicated he will-he cannot be brought back unless 1) he is charged with a specific crime, and 2) his Mexican friends can be persuaded that it is legally...
...constant dangers to the religious spirit in a country such as ours is the tendency to regard religion itself simply as the fruit of pious sentiment; or to hold, as the doctrinal basis of religion, what we may call the common factor in the religious opinions held by various groups; or to be content with the great religious truths of the natural order which can be known by unaided human reason. It is true that the founders of this country . . . gave as the religious foundation of their work only the truths of the natural order-belief...
...elephant in captivity, says Heinrich Oberjohann, is a pious fraud-a nine-foot canting hypocrite that gives the human public what it wants while privately laughing up its trunk at the hairless little apes. Only in the wilds of Asia and, better still, of Africa, can elephant nature be seen in the raw; and then usually only by other elephants, for the largest of land animals is also one of the more elusive...
...devoted a lifetime to creating a "religion" out of every vice in the catalogue. At 14, he seduced the kitchen maid while his mother was at church, and butchered a cat to see whether it had nine lives. These were mere preliminary excursions; he inherited a fortune from his pious father and went on to broader fields. At 23, he became Brother Perdurabo ("I will endure to the end") of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The group was interested in communication with good or angelic spirits in the "beyond" (William Butler Yeats was also a member). Crowley branched...
...felt, and failed to conceal, an utter contempt for the Old Bolsheviks' sentimental, old-grad memories and their pious reverence for the prophets Marx and Engels. "It is impossible to believe," wrote a British observer, "that there is no contempt in [Malenkov's] eye as he watches older men putting themselves through absurd and elaborate contortions to reconcile what is with what was supposed to be. His is the world that is." Apparently he did not mind being considered a heretic by such passionately doctrinaire Marxists as Andrei Zhdanov (touted frequently in the mid-'40s as Stalin...