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...often, when he intends to insult the reader's stupidity, he insults his intelligence instead. But Author Wylie's book might be of far greater importance than its own intrinsic worth if readers in any appreciable numbers would act seriously on his old and central recommendation-"know thyself"-as well as on a thing he fails to recommend-the study of those quieter, subtler, maturer diagnosticians who are casing the same field...
...known now that I am not and never have been an anti-Semite; and that Christ's words: "Love thy neighbor as thyself" have a thoroughly cosmopolitan meaning for me. Catholic, Christian, and Jew can and ought to cooperate in preserving this nation at peace. It is regrettable that thus far such cooperation has not been achieved by those of us who are striving mightily for it. Certainly, in injecting this anti-Semitic note TIME magazine has contributed nothing to our efforts...
...Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation's Department of Industrial Studies. Said she: "What does Christianity require of Britain and the United States in their jointly assumed responsibility for world affairs today? The answer may at once be given in simplest terms, Love thy Neighbor as thyself. . . . We are Christians just to the extent that we assume responsibility to aid in lifting out of poverty and insecurity those millions, not only in our own nation, but in all countries with which our nation has economic relations. For Britain and the United States together, this means the whole...
...Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...
Qualifications: "I will enter the office without ties and not in subjection to orders or directions from any political bases." The Committee suggests: "Know thyself...