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...dazzled by the extraordinary success of the Soviet system, and they begin to imagine that the Soviet Government can 'do anything.' " (Only J. Stalin, of all Russians, dares say there are things he cannot do.) Editor Fedoseev glowed with approval; his tribute could not have been more slavish; but still it got him in trouble. He was denounced for failing to admit in his Izvestia article how wrong he had been four years ago when he praised the other book. Fedoseev apologized...
Tablets of Eternity. The historian's function, under this definition, is to do more than study facts for their own sake, for "universal history is a continuous development; it is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul." A slavish objectivity subverts the purpose of history: a historian must not only be a judge, but a "hanging judge" as well. "The inflexible integrity of the moral code," said Acton, "is, to me. the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utility of history . . . Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral...
...some day. From the South came two novels shucked clean of old magnolia and Faulkneresque gothic: Thomas Hal Phillips' neatly written, believable son & father story, Search for a Hero; and Worth Tuttle Hedden's Love Is a Wound, a thoroughly honest and quietly dramatic tale of slavish and unrequited love in North Carolina. By & large, U.S. writers seemed to serve up fewer wormwood cocktails, fewer canapes of neurosis and despair, than in previous years. A selfconsciously written, cliché-laden, but interesting novel, Executive Suite, by Cameron Hawley, even dared to draw an understanding picture...
...years stolid, square-faced Kao has been Communist boss of Mukden (Manchuria), center of such industry as exists in China today. In Manchuria there are more Russians than in any other part of Red China. Kao, who visited Moscow in 1949, has long been a slavish imitator of Russian methods. Last week he received a group of Soviet artists, loudly applauded (with the proper gradations of respect) both a Stalin Cantata and a tone poem, The Song of Mao Tse-tung. Mao has said: "Comrade Kao Kang is a consistently correct leader." With this buildup, Kao, 50, is already...
...human finitude and the Christian exhortation to humility. It contradicts no less radically the spirit of open-minded scientific inquiry ... It dictates a rigid, monolithic society which, however benevolent, regiments its members according to an orthodox party line." If Buckley had his way, said Greene, teaching "would become . . . dull, slavish, and uninspired . . . He would transform Yale into the most dogmatic, hidebound institute for orthodox propaganda...