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...sharpening ability to counter the probing actions before they become big offensives, in the growing frustration and confusion of the enemy, in the degree of popular will-to-win at home. Ultimate policy goal: to wrap up the political, economic, military and moral meanings of the U.S. into the sort of grand plan that the cause-human freedom-deserves and the objective -an orderly, peaceful world of prospering, responsible nations-demands...
...average about 5 ft. tall, wear a sort of fiber loincloth. But the childlike women go wholly naked. Sexual customs are informal, with women valued chiefly as workers. Affection seems to be absent; there is no word for love in the Xetá language...
...news of another sort of Passion-play story, see CINEMA...
...Poverty, Papistry and Pugnacity," Belloc (who died in 1953) had a solemn high literary funeral last year in an authorized biography (TIME, April 22, 1957). Biographer Speaight found leftover material too good to forget, notably a big bundle of crotchety letters-which are a long way from the sort of garrulous guff women still write to each other or the kind of bulletin businessmen confide to the uncritical tape...
Belloc's faith shines through all his correspondence, but the special sparkle of the letters comes from Belloc's "great lifebuoy of humour, which is a sort of sister or companion aid to the Faith." In his gloomiest moods he could break off to twit a friend whom he had caught in a split infinitive...