Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From 1922 until a few years ago, John Fine was an ally of Grundy's P.M.A. He was boss of Luzerne County (Wilkes-Barre), but he did not play politics on the Grundy basis. His was a "normal" political machine devoted heart & soul to perpetuating and expanding its power. It had no noticeable social philosophy, liberal, reactionary or otherwise. Says John Fine: "I like to play politics for all I am worth when I am playing it. I like to give good government where I can, build up my organization, keep the confidence of the people, keep down...
...sane American can approve or tolerate Communism, the diabolical philosophy of our time. But just because an ex-Communist bares his so-called soul in public is no excuse for a critic to start jumping hoops in applauding him. If your assessment of Chambers' book is correct, then Tolstoy was a pulp writer...
...Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune: "Witness . . . is the self-dramatization of a soul, haunted by morbid guilt and touched with religious passion, a 'confession' and one of the extraordinary documents of our time...
Near Miss. In Natchez, Miss., Secretary of State Heber Ladner, addressing the League of Women Voters, solemnly began: "It thrills my soul whenever I come to the historic city of Vicksburg," discovered that he had begun reading the wrong speech...
...Communism's humanity in theory that had originally attracted him to the Party), and mostly because he found God. Because he found God, the author comes to the startling conclusion that the Western world, in a fearful state of crisis, must choose between "irreconcilable opposites--God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism." By that reasoning, thinking along Jeffersonian lines, which would involve faith in Man, Mind, and Freedom, would be impossible. And yet anybody knows that it is not impossible. Chambers errs in his assumption that Communism is the logical conclusion of 18th century faith in man. Communism...