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...Benedicta of the Cross, she learned the spiritual lessons of Carmel so well that she has already been proposed as a candidate for beatification in the Roman Catholic Church. In The Scholar and the Cross (Newman Press; $3.50), German-born Author Hilda Graef analyzes Edith Stein and her spiritual saga with rare objectivity. One fact emerges clearly: whether saint or simply, as a friend suggested, "an ideal personality," Edith Stein was one of the most remarkable women of her time...
...keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team and a hilariously crooked sculling championship, invites comparison with Thurber's immortal tribute to the life-preserving elixirs concocted by Aunt...
Malraux's life is a saga of modern godless man in search of himself. He has lived it more intensely, explored it more actively, expressed it more eloquently than any of his contemporaries. Still in his teens, he left his Roman Catholic faith; since then he has been a religious man in search of a religion. The search has carried him wherever men's souls were tried in war, wherever men's souls were expressed in art. He calls it the search for "the honor of being a man." Always he poses the humanist's anguished...
...Mooring, did not "accelerate" delinquency but "insulated" against it. The family itself, testified Paramount's Y. Frank Freeman, is delinquency's chief hotbed, and "an old-fashioned hickory stick" is the remedy. Taken to task for the violence dished out in Warner's unreleased juvenile crime saga, Rebel Without Cause, Executive Producer Jack L. Warner sourly snapped: "The critics must be using radar. I haven't even seen the picture yet." Interrupting, a spectator challenged Warner to state how many of his last 30 movies showed women smoking and drinking. Sighed Warner irritably: "You must...
Story of Midas, Baucis and Philemon, The Invasion of Troy and dozens of others. The "something extra" that Ovid brings to each saga is the saving detail of homely human interest, and Translator Humphries helps bring it out with homely colloquial touches of his own. As Daedalus fashions feathers into wings for the fateful flight from Crete, his playful son Icarus...