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...words, but they love it." The Daily Mail's Don Iddon called Stevenson "dazzling and delightful," adding: "His manner is more British than American, and this could be a handicap [in the U.S.]. Already his harassed enemies are suggesting that Stevenson has an English accent-a most shameful sin." Reported the Daily Telegraph's Malcolm Muggeridge: "He derives from the tradition of Henry Adams, and a century ago might well have preferred to transfer himself across the Atlantic to survey the New World from the Old." Said the Sunday Times: Stevenson "already has much of the clean...
commits no sin...
...like Americans. . . and I proved it a hundred times during the war. . . Their souls are pure, much purer than ours. I like the Americans. . . because they believe that Christ is always on the side of those who are in the right, because they believe that it is a sin to be in the wrong...
...highly convincing, but your treatment of Eisenhower seemed to contradict the opening distinction you made between present-day "hardened" Liberalism and careful independence of mind. To one who still has what he feels to be the best of reasons in favoring the General, you seemed guilty of one intellectual sin you deplored, "the Big Oversimplification." To cite at least three instances of this: (1) "On foreign affairs, where he is meant to be an expert, all Eisenhower has offered is a restatement of Democratic policy on Europe, in terms just different enough to cause havoc abroad." It would appear that...
Piglets for Rahabaat. The natives have all the sins of the senses, but no sense of sin. They worship Rahabaat, a god who lives in the local volcano, with frank fertility rites. When Sam preaches his Vermont fundamentalism at the men, they giggle and slip away into the underbrush. When Irma tries to clothe the women in sacklike dresses of her own design, they cut holes in the tops to bare their breasts. After a brief vogue, even this ventilated version goes out of fashion. When the natives hear of Irma's virginity, they laughingly...