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...wish to take this opportunity of expressing my objection to the tone of your article concerning Monsignor Ronald Knox's book The Mass in Slow Motion [TIME, Sept. 20]. I have always enjoyed and appreciated the light vein in which you presented our erstwhile serious world affairs, but as a Catholic I wish to affirm that the Mass is a very sacred subject to us, and to hear it alluded to as a "mumble-jumble" is not only disedifying but most revolting...
...that vein, President Jordan cited the need for preparation in "leadership and responsibility" in the postwar college world today and added that such qualities could most fully be achieved by "a leisurely and vicarious participation in the past of mankind, and in coming to an understanding of the sentiments that have inspired and moved...
Lady to Lockup. Of Cary's novels, Herself Surprised, first issued in 1941, is the third to be published in the U.S. Each of these three shows him to advantage in a different vein. The Moonlight is a darkly limned, Hardyesque story of conflicting generations in modern England; The African Witch is an authentic description of life in an African town. Herself Surprised is written in what is probably Cary's most congenial mode: the humorous picaresque in which a roguish heroine recalls, with tongue-in-cheek moralizing, the dubious deeds of her past...
Last Man Across? As a poet, De la Mare discovered his own vein early and deepened it steadily over half a century. His most famous poem, The Listeners, is no more perfectly written than hundreds of others, some of them, like John Mouldy, as grisly as a child's daydream...
...kings issued a joint statement in the same vein: no compromise. But on the next leg of his journey, to visit his nephew Regent Abdul Illah of Iraq, Abdullah dropped a hint to the Arab press to stop the chest-thumping which makes compromise impossible. Said Abdullah: "The significant feature of the situation is not so much a matter of the Arab states being against the Jews but rather against the supporters of world Jewry in the international sphere. Therefore, I wish to advise the Arab press not to be too optimistic . . . not too pessimistic...