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...Saint? It may be a long time before the Christian world knows what to make of the Frenchwoman named Simone Weil. She was born (in 1909) into an agnostic Jewish family, and died (in 1943) a passionate Christian mystic (TIME, Jan. 15). She was deeply influenced by Roman Catholicism, but could never bring herself to become a Catholic, or even to be baptized. She wrote hardly a line for publication, but her diaries, letters and a few essays contain a vivid and challenging sense of the presence...
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Knife Sharp. The war was declared last week when Macy's trimmed 6% from 5,978 fair-traded items, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision which knocked a key prop from under fair-trade laws (TIME, June 4). Warned Macy's Richard Weil Jr.: if competitors matched the cuts, Macy's would slash prices another 6% "quicker than you can say 'knife.'" But Gimbels had its own knife ready. To keep tabs on Macy's, Gimbels set up a GHQ to direct its comparison shoppers, added 287 assistant buyers and its training squad...
Baffled Love. Simone Weil's whole life, writes Fiedler, was a series of acts of self-dedication that fizzled into lugubriousness. As a young schoolteacher she rushed into left-wing movements and marched in picket lines, but the authorities refused to take her seriously enough to fire her. In order to "understand" the workingman, she took a job as a factory hand in an automobile plant (a decision "fundamentally silly, the illusion of the Vassar girl of all lands," says Fiedler), where she suffered not as a worker but as an intellectual, and ended up by getting pleurisy...
Final Despair. "Agony," Simone Weil once said, "is the supreme 'dark night' which even the perfect need to attain absolute purity; and to attain that end, it has to be bitter agony." Writes Professor Fiedler: "This is a difficult doctrine in all times and places, and it is especially alien and abhorrent in present-day America where anguish is regarded as vaguely unAmerican, something to be grown out of, or analyzed away, even expunged by censorship; and where certainly we do not look to our churches to preach the uses of affliction. It is consolation, 'peace...