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Lent or Lockup? The custom of penitential preparation for every feast was inherited by the early Christians from the Jews. Early penitents in the Holy Land observed Lent by eating only two meals a week. But St. John Chrysostom (4th Century) did not urge such Spartan austerity for the multitude of believers...
...tenebrous tones Churchill surveyed the Spartan boundaries of Labor's promised land. "All enterprise, all initiative is baffled and fettered. The queues are longer, the faces are longer, the shelves are barer, the shops are emptier. . . . Whole spheres of beneficial activity are frozen rigid and numb because this Government had to prove their Socialist orthodoxy...
...have traveled the U.S. for 20 years, meeting all types, races, creeds, and localities of the country. Had he traveled as I have, I am sure he would know that in every group, area, industry, political party, or what not, there are those who might be classed as "Spartan" and "decadent...
...have yet to see an American "Spartan" or "decadent" who will be pushed around by a man with...
...Whereas World War II has so devastated Europe as to force her people to turn Spartan, it has merely been "highly profitable [and] swell for U.S. workers, for farmers, for a majority of Americans." Few Americans realize that in "fighting German Naziism and Jap Shintoism, [the U.S.] is gradually being dragged down to the moral level of what she fights...