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...Father Feeney's name, Archbishop Gushing said, "obliges me to reveal the unhappy fact that Father Feeney has been defying the orders of his legitimate superiors for more than seven months and since Jan. 1 of this year has not possessed the faculties of this archdiocese." In plainer words, Father Feeney had been denied the right to preach or hear confessions. Last week Archbishop Gushing further decreed that Father Feeney could perform no priestly functions, e.g., saying Mass, teaching religion. He also forbade any Roman Catholic to visit or assist in the activities of Feeney's G.H.Q...
...pastors' lawyers also plugged their clients' cultural guilt as proof that they had been led astray. Intoned one: "The defendants were not only obedient tools, they were ideologically convinced tools. The defendants are victims of a foreign influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...
...should the Soviet Union be used as a base? Stalin is even plainer. In one of his basic doctrinal writings, which has been republished in millions of copies, in many languages, right up to the present, he says: ". . . The development of world revolution will be the more rapid and thorough, the more effective the aid rendered by the first Socialist country [Russia] to the workers . . . of all other countries. In what should this aid be expressed? . . . The 'victorious proletariat' of the one country [here he quotes Lenin] . . . after organizing its own Socialist production, should stand up . . . against...
...illness goes back at least that far. Mann does not believe that illness is a source of artistic activity, "but if genius already exists, it stimulates it. It depends on who is sick. If it is a Nietzsche or a Dostoevsky . . ." Mann's own genius is of a plainer kind, founded on steady discipline. In writing Dr. Faustus, he averaged a little better than one page" of longhand a day, the same pace he has maintained for half a century...
...enthusiastically about himself. He reminded Louisiana voters that he was Huey Long's oldest son, and strongly intimated that he was the true heir to the departed Kingfish's domain. This summer, when he set out to run for the U.S. Senate, he made the inference even plainer by continually speaking of "Me and Earl...