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...confrontation of Christianity and rationalist philosophy, the growing defiance of the authority of kings-Durant is painstaking, persuasive and tolerant. Even academic critics no longer dismiss him as a mere popularizer, and he shows once again that, better than any other historian living, he understands how to dis till the flavor of an age from its arts and manners. Like one of his favorite figures, Montaigne, he can "speak to paper as I do to the first person I meet." Indeed, he is often at his most eloquent when speaking of Montaigne himself, whose lifelong preoccupation with his health (notably...
...have left me. My favorite fantasy is four minutes or so of noncommercial viewing as you fry in your democratically elected hot seats, preferably with your condoning constituents. I would willingly watch you all die for the West, if only I could keep my minuscule portion of it ... Till then, damn you. England...
...Waiting Till Spring. The monkey-brain test is admittedly arbitrary, because no human being is likely ever to get the vaccine that way, even by accident. So some experts would like to see it dropped. Vaccinventor Sabin calls it "an insignificant test." But Dr. Jonas E. Salk tried in vain to block general release of any oral vaccine this year except for an emergency stockpile for Government controlled use in epidemics. The National Foundation's Basil O'Connor snorted: "It is totally unorthodox to license part of a vaccine." Some manufacturers guessed that release of Type III oral...
Awkwardness of plot rather than deficiency of emotion sometimes gives Director France Stiglic's superbly photographed film the itchy feel of melodrama. By happenstance, Ruth meets a trooper who recognizes her while she is walking in a park forbidden to Jews. After that she hides indoors, till one day, during an air raid, she can stand it no longer and runs out into the sunlit, deserted streets only to see a notice pasted to a wall: her father has been condemned to death. As the all-clear sounds, she is captured and packed into a cattle...
...first task," deadpanned Judge Anderson, "will be to determine in some detail what problems the railroad has." The first problem is that there is only $4,300,000 in the New Haven's till to meet a weekly payroll of $1,500,000. The second one is that over the next six months the New Haven expects to take in little more than $9,000,000 to meet $335 million in expenses and obligations...