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Next day, an anguished howl was heard across Paris. The chiffoniers cried thatthe Prefect was out to rob 50,000 people of their honest work. Several thousand gathered in cramped, dim-lit Jean Jaurès Hall to hear stooped, 63-year-old René Cormaud, who "does" the rue des Ecoles and the rue Monge, defend chiffonage. Said Cormaud: "It's those fly-by-nights who cause all the trouble. They have no sense of professional standards. Instead of emptying each can carefully on a burlap sack to sort it out, they dump the garbage helter-skelter...
...psychology of the religious life . . . since St. Augustine." The Roman Catholic weekly, Commonweal, has rated him "perhaps the greatest Protestant-Christian of the 19th Century, a man equal in spiritual stature to . . . Cardinal Newman." But to many a college-educated American the strangely beautiful name of Sören Kierkegaard might as well be that of a new movie star or a kind of smorgasbord. Chief reasons: 1) only in the last decade have most of his works been translated from Danish into English†; 2) his ironical, passionate, introverted philosophy of religion is off beam for positivist, social-minded...
Anthologist Bretall's judicious excerpting from 17 of Kierkegaard's major & minor works makes a 481-page compendium that is also almost a biography. For Sören Kierkegaard lived most intensely and dramatically in his thoughts...
...majority M.R.P., the party which had backed him until his resignation from the presidency last January. The beautiful marriage of De Gaulle and the M.R.P. seemed to have gone permanently on the rocks. But he coyly refrained from betrothing himself publicly to the growing Gaullist Union, headed by René Capitant, which had announced that it would fight the constitution, put up candidates in the next elections...
...REN WICK C. KENNEDY Camden...