Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Influenced by certain demands of one Joseph Goldstein ... I seek the suppression of Alice in Wonderland because it ridicules the plight of the poor Mock Turtle, a practically defenseless minority...
...Joseph Goldstein and others who consider The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic [TIME, April 4], I would suggest they . . . reread the play with the open-mindedness they ask of others. Viewed from the 20th Century, the Christians make a pretty poor showing, on the whole. It is they who suffer from delusions of grandeur and indulge freely in insults and jibes; it is they who . . . mouth words like mercy and justice, only to evade an honest bargain by means of a cheap legal trick...
Watching, one observer found it an astonishing spectacle-"a dress parade, not of the few, but of the million ... in which you could not distinguish the rich from the poor." The observer, New York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, had spent half a lifetime observing the world's wars and truces, its generals, its despots, and its sad and patient masses. On the steps of St. Patrick's, she thought...
Vincent de Paul goes to the village of Chatillonles-Dombes, which has been without a priest for ten years. His success there (he organizes a mission to care for the poor) draws the attention of Richelieu, who makes him Chaplain of the Royal Galleys. As a Court official, however, the priest feels out of touch with the unfortunates he wants so passionately to serve. He gives up all of his possessions, and later, convinced that the "miserables" need food more than religious instruction, founds the famous St. Lazare mission in Paris...
...Saint Vincent does not become bitter. He can only think of the immense job he has to do. Even at the end of his life, he complains of his weakness and inadequacy, and his final words to a novice are: love the poor with a love strong enough to make them forget the shame of accepting charity...