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...XRay. Sir Walter Scott, said Mark Twain, did "more real and lasting harm" with his "sham grandeurs" than "any other individual that ever wrote." Today, few Americans suspect how many thousands of native place names are directly or indirectly Sir Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove...
...series of eight articles in the Christian Century under the general title: 'Can Catholicism Win America?' [TIME, Jan. 22], These articles bristle with so many false and misleading assumptions and implications . . . that they are bound to prove highly inflammatory. Adding fuel to the flames, Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, recently began . . . a . . . crusade [TIME, Jan 29]. The campaign is gathering momentum. If it continues to do so . . . it will not be long before the hooded figures and flaming crosses will again appear in our midst...
...Vale [Jan. 29] as ''a possibly dangerous trend toward anti-Catholicism." Your religion editor suggests that "intolerance is a boomerang...
...Christian Century and Dr. Vale remember that millions of Catholic boys are risking their lives for all of us-and they have a battle-won right to a voice in postwar U.S. affairs. . . . Catholics are doing their share to fight for democracy; they certainly don't deserve the hateful, ungrateful bigotry that TIME is helping to foster...
...Naturally, the Roman Catholic Church seeks to dominate the religious life of the country, of the world for that matter. The clergy and laity of the Catholic Church would be derelict in their duty if they did not work and pray toward that end just as, I daresay, Dr. Vale would be failing in his duty if he did not seek the same leadership for the church that he represents...