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Tisserant, 80, recalled a December 1939 meeting with Pius in the Pope's study at which he futilely urged Pius to issue an encyclical on the duty of Roman Catholics to resist the unjust orders of an authoritarian state; Jews were not to be specifically mentioned. Six months after the meeting, Tisserant wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Paris, then Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, repeating his suggestion. He did not criticize the Pope, Tisserant insisted last week, giving copies of the letter to the press. His target was the Roman Curia, which, Tisserant charged, had a tacit agreement with...
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY (Columbia) suffered a long, unjust obscurity but may soon find its way into the opera repertory, despite the libretto's bizarre vision of capitalistic morality. This recording, now six years old, has become a classic. Lenya sings the role of Jenny the prostitute, and Heinz Sauerbaum, the great German theater tenor, is Jimmy, her doomed, desperate lover...
...principal thing to be said about Philip Stern's book on tax loopholes is that it is a superb popularizaton. The term "popularization" has come to have an overtone of condescension that is often, as in this case, unjust. A good popularization takes facts or interpretations already known to the experts and makes them comprehensible and interesting to the lay reader. If the subject dealt with is of any importance, the popularizer performs an invaluable function--war is too important to be left to the generals...
Much of the public slighting of Burton was unjust-the pederasty study, for instance, had been suggested to him as a serious project by his commander, General Sir Charles Napier. Yet it is difficult to see Burton as a man more sinned against than sinning. For one thing, as Author Farwell blandly puts it, "the only vice he did not practice was gambling." For another, Burton, who always referred to the proper British public contemptuously as "Mrs. Grundy," goaded the good lady abominably. On rare visits back to England he delighted in describing imaginary feasts at which...
...think you were unkind and unjust to a leader who, long before the rest of the hemisphere, recognized the malignancy of Communism, and at considerable risk to his own political future allowed Guatemala to be used as a training base for the Bay of Pigs invasion. In the common effort to resist the spread of Castro Communism in Central America, the U.S. had and has no stronger supporter or firmer friend than President Ydigoras Fuentes...