Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your review . . . reminds me of some acute remarks which were made on this engaging subject about 30 years ago. The following appeared, I believe, in 1918: . . . The human weakness for profanity is like the human weakness for tobacco-it does not cure anything, but it undoubtedly soothes and caresses. Carried to excess, it grieves the judicious; practiced in moderation, it allays the passions, promotes digestion, placates animosities, and makes for happiness at the domestic hearth . . . No sane man would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist...
...Israel recently an American ex-Army captain tried to marry a Jewess. A rabbi refused to officiate (because the captain was not a Jew); ditto a district commissioner (because he was not a British subject). He was turned down by an Anglican church in Jaffa (because the bride was not a Christian) and by a Greek Orthodox priest (who considered both outside his flock). A ship captain said he could perform the ceremony by taking them on a special trip beyond the three-mile limit. But when he quoted his price, the couple decided it would be cheaper...
...Since we're Ridlon the subject let's get down to the Brennan question of the hour," said the assistant, Fitkin the subject to his mood...
Added Sir Leigh Ashton, director of London's Victoria & Albert Museum: "After all, painters have always sought to make an object.Very often they have taken a subject too; but if only this mythical layman could be persuaded instead of looking at the subject to look at the object [the painting itself], he might then be able to appreciate . . . difficult pictures...
...week starting Friday, Oct. 15. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...