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Domestically, too, issues were hard to find; Labor's complaints of rising prices were matched by Tory assertions that a vote for Labor was a vote for ration books. The lack of noteworthy issues was generally taken to mean that the country is probably satisfied with its economic well-being and Tory government...
...grown bitter. He is not yet a card-carrying Communist. But he has joined the Red-led Confédération Générate du Travail, and he is swallowing Communist propaganda. The Communists predicted German rearmament, defeat in Indo-China, economic misery. "It's the only party that tells the truth," Bérard argues. Deep down, Jean is less a militant pro-Communist than a bitter man protesting. More than anything he would like to be somebody else. "If my parents had money, I would have been a student, and I think I would...
...practicality of Bishop Welles's suggestion. Since the Reformation, the Anglican Communion has largely contented itself with the ancient saints of the church calendar. The most famous exception was King Charles I, charged with treason and beheaded by a provisional government under Cromwell in 1649. After the Resto ration the Church of England acclaimed him as a martyr for his unwillingness to renounce the Anglican faith, officially put his feast into the calendar of saints.-Nearest thing to a U.S. Episcopal saint is probably Samuel Seabury, first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America, the anniversary of whose consecration...
...refugees all have stories to tell. There is a serious farm crisis in East Germany. Meat, wheat, sugar and edible oils are now critically short, and in some localities there has been panic buying on the "free markets" (where prices are about six times the ration price). Some East Germans fear that the "pocketbook blockade" of West Berlin (TIME, April 11) is only the prelude to "some new deviltry." The East German government announced that it had arrested 521 U.S., British and West German "spies...
...irae et mortes pallidae placent. Et non Venus benigna inter nos incedit sed illa Venus dirissima quae tantummodo incastos ritus saeviter fovet. O collegium Harvardianum, quale exemplum maestissimum ver et Venus tibi protulit! Ubinam gentium sunt Nymphae Gratiaeque decentes? Cur nihil nisi membra disiecta? Nam hac in Senecae fabula Ration Stoica nihil potest, et ubique regnat Furor et Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas effrenata maximum habet imperium, noverca nec innocens nec Fato percussa, mala ex libidine constituit suum privignum Hippolytum stuprare. Qui tamen, documentum nobis omnibus gravissimum, ex nimis pura castitate tantum silvas canesque amat, et feminas omnes...