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Among U. S. Christians who care for the poor, none are more blessed with selfless zeal than those Roman Catholics who labor in the Catholic Worker movement. Their leaders are rugged, genial Peter Maurin and tall, dowdy Dorothy Day, who run a "House of Hospitality" in Manhattan, edit the Catholic Worker, a 1?monthly with 125,000 circulation...
...everything in sight, "good" or "bad," within the purely human sphere of endeavor. Some of his enemies-war and fascism-are popular pushovers. Others will leave Propter few takers. A partial list of targets for his dialectic: politics, capitalistic society, organized religion, romantic love, science, socialism, humanitarianism, language, virtue, selfless devotion, sex, art-in brief, all activities on the purely human plane, however disinterested, are productive only of evil...
...which is often thoroughly and pointedly blacked. "Ethel Vance" knows her mountains and her Maximilianplatz. In the characters of the Countess and the General she has provided, furthermore, symbols of the old Germany accommodating itself with desperation to the new. In Dr. Ditten's stiff, selfless intellectuality the philosophy of the totalitarian State gets its most precise expression. But the conflict in the mind of this authentic, unhappy young German is the major conflict of the book...
...days later Clarence Dykstra, who is far too smart to get into a name-calling contest, replied: "A university is timeless, selfless, and committed to the commands of truth. . . . Individual lives are short. . . . No adversity kills a firmly rooted university...
...Social Work" used to be regarded as a career for unmarriageable females, male fuddy-duddies and a few selfless souls like Jane Addams. Today professional social workers, headed by Harry Hopkins, are key people in Government's multiplex Relief-dispensing machine. When 3,000 of them met last week in Seattle for the 65th National Conference of Social Work, what they said, and what was said to them, was news...