Word: rashness
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...progress, not of reaction, failure and slavery ..." Dewey cited signs of unrest in Communist China, hoped that, in case of a rebellion against Peking, the U.S. would do nothing to discourage it. As for Chiang's forces on Formosa, "certainly we should not encourage them in any rash adventures, but no law of God or man requires that we prevent any man from fighting for freedom wherever reasonable opportunity occurs...
...Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A skillful account of the epidemic of devil-possession which beset the French town of Loudun in the 17th century, and of the rash priest who burned for it (TIME...
...Rash Priest. Father Urbain Grandier, the center of the disturbance, looked for all the world like "a fleshier, not unamiable and only slightly less intelligent Mephistopheles in clerical fancy dress." Since his arrival at Loudun in 1617, he had fully exploited his devilish good looks. He not only made himself free with scullery trulls and upstairs maids; he also abused the confessional and other sacred precincts, it was said, with docile ladies of the parish. He had even taken a rich "wife," though his enemies had difficulty in proving it, because Grandier himself had served as both priest and bridegroom...
...move ahead much farther without risking an all-out war has grown relatively small. But, as General Eisenhower said last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) : "Tyranny must feed on new conquests-or wither." Stalin therefore may want to do something to break the deadlock. There was a rash of speculation about just what that something might be. Main guesses last week: war in the near future (considered improbable by U.S. military experts), a new peace offensive (possible, but it would definitely require a new gimmick, as past peace offensives have flopped), reinforced cold war (very possible...
...troubles of WSB are nothing compared to those of OPS. Last week there was a rash of new price boosts-aluminum up 1? a lb., Kaiser-Frazer cars $54 apiece, cotton $5 a bale, manganese $40 a ton (which will boost the cost of making steel an average...