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...mysteries and meanings of life above and beyond the rational intelligibilities. It is not for this reason 'otherworldly.' Rather it has a firm grasp upon the meanings of life in history and does not reduce them to meaninglessness by seeking to comprehend them too simply into some realm of rationality. 'Deeper than life the plan of life doth...
Even in the freespoken atmosphere of Hyde Park such things are seldom said of a reigning monarch. Appearing last week in a respectable if small journal of opinion, the National and English Review, under the byline of its young editor Lord Altrincham, a peer of the realm and a Tory, they evoked a howl of indignant response all over the nation. "Lord Altrincham's attack is vulgar," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Daily Express. "Being muddleheaded, it is destructive." "Disgraceful," complained the League of Empire Loyalists. "Altrincham ought to be shot," groused the Duke of Argyll...
...within the law. Other U.D.N. spokesmen were anxious to condemn Lott. But they were reluctant to defend Tenorio until they saw whether ballistic tests on the seized weapons shed any light on the dozens of unsolved murders in Caxias. Nevertheless, Lott's re-emergence as constable of the realm, playing power politics without a by-your-leave from President Kubitschek, stirred uneasy fears of army dominance. Kubitschek, whose declining popularity makes him ever more beholden to Lott, conferred quickly with his War Minister but was noncommittal on the raid...
Once upon a time, in the magic realm of California, there was a grown-up heady boy named Walt Disney who set out to create the happiest place on earth. So he went into his countinghouses and to his moneylenders, and he collected millions of dollars. Then he ordered his royal artists and carpenters to build a whimsical wonderland of spaceships to the moon and Mark Twain river boats, of mechanical monkeys and bobbing hippos, of moated castles, wilderness forts and make-believe jungles. All the children, young and old, came to visit this happy place, called Disneyland. And Walt...
...same time, the size and shape of the Stassen problem symbolized something special about the U.N.-sponsored disarmament talks now going on in London. Disarmament, as a subject of debate, appears now a little down out of the clouds and more in the realm of political give and take. And in this atmosphere it will have the best chance to date of proving whatever promise it may have. If Western European governments were edgy about Stassen's private meetings with Zorin, they stood firm and tough in the face of Russian-inspired propaganda on the horrors...