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...Morning After. Thereupon, in December 1931, Arthur suffered another metaphysical revolution. He joined the Communist Party. He had, so he thought, good reason. The Nazis were coming to power in Germany, and to Koestler it seemed that only the Communists could hold out against them. More generally, the party offered him a release for his "state of Chronic Indignation" at "a polluted society." Even so, a run of irrelevant bad luck at that time had some other "field that awaits the plow of the Lord...
...Deputies and five Senators who bolted R.P.F. in protest against its "negative and sterile attitude" towards Premier Antoine Pinay (TIME, July 14) formed something called the Independent Group for Republican and Social Action. Edmond Barrachin, the fast-talking Parisian columnist who led the revolt, was elected president. De Gaulle thereupon serenely announced that the defectors had not quit; they had been fired for refusing to obey orders...
...pretty well. True, they felt it suffered a bit from "overabundance," and, at a time when the trend was to disembodied church music, they raised their eyebrows because some parts did not seem musically "chaste" enough. But they praised its "spontaneous melodies," predicted a fine future for its composer. Thereupon, the Mass fell into obscurity. It was not until last week, in Chicago's Grant Park, that it got its second performance...
...Briggs, three girls who changed their minds about supporting the Harvard bid crossed their names off the petition. Later, another girl complained that her name had been crossed off without her knowledge or consent. Thereupon all four names were replaced...
...Thereupon the delegates settled methodically to work in 16 committees, dealing with 1,500-odd recommendations that will occupy the conference. Among the more pressing and controversial subjects: ¶ A church survey commission, working with a firm of Chicago management engineers, has mapped out a radical streamlining of church agencies, suggested a coordinating council to make sense out of the welter of semi-autonomous church boards. ¶ A special commission has recommended that candidates for the ministry should no longer be obliged to sign a pledge against smoking...