Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truckdriver who worked 96 hours a week to keep his wife and two small children from starvation in a one-room apartment, Peter had his own view of Communism. Says he: "You need a special kind of character to be a Communist and rob the workers." Peter saw the Communist bosses riding around in big cars, bawling out the workers for being lazy, but it never occurred to him to join the Communist ranks. "If I'd been a Communist, I would have been a traitor to my buddies. Anyway I would have...
...Panoramic View. To bring about a better world, says Lombardi. Christianity's leaders-bishops and priests, politicians and professionals, aristocrats and union men-must learn to bring Christianity out of the church and into everyday life. Three years ago he began organizing his training center, and meanwhile he tested his techniques on 3,015 priests, 260 bishops and about 2,000 laymen. Last fall the Pope showed his enthusiasm for the project by visiting the unfinished buildings-leaving the diocese of Rome for the first time any Pope had left it since the pontiffs lost their temporal power...
Barzun concludes: "To expand for the sake of a mere numerical show would be akin to demagogy, especially if done in the name of civic duty. And from the truly social point of view it would amount to debasing the coinage-a poor gift to the unsuspecting students seeking our degrees and to the community that would accept them at face value...
...anomalies, Eternity Editor Donald Grey Barnhouse, one of the top leaders of U.S. Fundamentalism, two years ago assigned Staff Writer Walter R. Martin to study the sect. Martin, a "research polemicist," who has already excoriated the Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists from a Funda mentalist point of view, set to work and found to his astonishment that he brought not a sword but peace...
Redon's predilection for portraying the strange creatures of his imagination-looming one-eyed Cyclopes, curiously grinning spiders, claustrophobic images of terror half-seen in the corner of a mirror, and sad, lost fools-testify to his view that in art "everything is done through docile submission to the 'unconscious.' " Redon found a meager market for his nightmares, eked out a living illustrating books, including Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," and peddling his prints to dealers...