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Hocking might not have quarreled with that description. He proudly con curred in Poet John Masefield's con tention that love and beauty are uni versal gateways to truth and agreed with Existentialist Gabriel Marcel that all of experience is a divine summons, exalting passion. He never wavered from the tenet of his first book, The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), that "the world, like human self, has its unity in a living purpose. It is the truth of the existence...
...Peace. When a fact is as uni versal as love, death or anxiety, it becomes difficult to measure and classify. Man would not be human were he not anxious. Is his anxiety today really greater than ever before ? different from Job's? Or is modern man simply a victim of distorted historical vision that always sees the pres ent as bigger and worse than the past...
...grossing movies last month, according to a Variety survey of 25 key U.S. cities: 1) The African Queen (United Artists) 2) The Marrying Kind (Columbia) 3) Red Ball Express - see below (Uni versal-International) 4) Belles on Their Toes (soth Century-Fox) 5) Singin' in the Rain...
More than anything, the exhibition seemed to prove that 20th-Century art is far too subjective for the telling of uni versal truths. The life-loving men who carved the story of Christ in stone or set it in stained-glass windows for medieval Europe to read did it incomparably better. The subject matter of art's great periods has apparently become too hot for modern art to handle...
...implication, promised British support to France should Germany attack her or attempt to seize Austria. Cried the Frenchman with enthusiasm while the Briton looked faintly uncomfortable: "In an address elevated in its thought, where was found anew the liberal tradition of England and England's sense of the uni versal, Sir Samuel Hoare told us of the determination of the United Kingdom to adhere without reservations to the system of collective security. . . . This declaration marks a date in the history of the League of Nations!" Since British voters do not want to be dragged into another great European...