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Archbishop Beckman denounced the "dictatorship pseudo-officially canonized by a brother cleric"-a reference to Bishop Hurley's suggestion that President Roosevelt alone should decide upon U.S. entry into the war. He assailed the practice of "the secular and even the Catholic press to place official interpretations on the pronouncements of clerics newly returned from abroad" (i.e., Bishop Hurley, who until last fall was stationed at the 'Vatican). He bemoaned the fact that "sadly enough the flagpole on the White House lawn has never lacked for clerical adornment...
...since 1924 has Tibet seen a Panchen Lama in the flesh. In that year the late Dalai Lama, secular ruler of the land, seized the spiritual power as well, drove the Panchen Lama into exile where he died in 1938. When this usurper died seven years ago, he was succeeded by a Mongolian shepherd's son. The new Dalai Lama is now being educated - as the new Panchen Lama will be - amid the spinning prayer wheels and chanting monks of a Tibetan monastery. The two lucky youths can look forward to a soft life if they are lucky enough...
...member of the Socialist Party. He stands as far left economically as he now is far right theologically, but nonetheless presents a balanced if pointed view of society: "The anti-aristocratic emphasis of the Bible has been interpreted ... by certain types of sectarian Christianity and by modern secular radicalism in too simple politico-moral terms...
Your article on "practical pacifists" (TIME, Feb. 17) ought to be hailed by all of liberal ilk. I have not seen as fair and unbiased a presentation of the pacifist position anywhere in the secular press, and I'm a confirmed addict of the liberal periodicals...
...last year's $1,500 Pulitzer scholarship, is a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory. Composer Nordoff. who would have become a concert pianist had he not found that he was expected to study showy trash like Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, has written two piano concertos, a Whitmanesque Secular Mass, a Polynesian opera, the music for Katharine Cornell's production of Romeo and Juliet. Last week a Philadelphia production of a new one-act Nordoff opera, The Masterpiece, proved the most diverting event of a season in which the LT. S. lyric theatre had been taking a nice...