Word: westons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among conclusions reached by the seminar were: "That . . . sincere differences are matters of conscience between the individual soul and its creator, and, therefore, are entitled to universal respect. "That such agreement to disagree as to the fundamentals of their respective faiths in no way interferes with their active cooperation...
...Married. Weston R. Shipstead, 20, Washington preparatory school student, son of Minnesota's dentist-Senator Henrik Shipstead; and a Miss Hazel E. Thompson, 21, beauty shoppe operator; after eloping to Rockville...
...jacket of this recent novel, a statement is made to which we should like to take immediate ex-exception. "The readers of Mr. Weston's first novel will not be surprised by the original manner in which he presents a powerful story"--so runs the brief puff. Well, frankly, we were surprised by it. More than that, we were mollified. In such a frame of mind it is hard to get eye-to-eye and cheek-by-jowl with an author's intentions, supposing that he has some. And so, in trying to line up a few impressions...
...Weston is a member of the psycho-analytical school of writers, a charter member we should say. His technique springs full-armed from the fulminations of Freud. It is a sort of detective mechanism for discovering the well-springs of character. It is deft in the same way that the technique of Conan Doyle is deft. But instead of clues you have complexes; instead of crimes, weaknesses of character. By taking the stuff of complexes, you arrive at the source of a spiritual flaw...
...Patchwork Madonna", Mr. Weston makes use of two central characters, a psycho-analyst and his patient, the London actress, Creda Reid. The chapters consist of the progressive consultations in the treatment of her case. And since the actress is indeed a pretty well tattered madonna, a certain amount of interest is attached to her explanations of the origins of her hates and loves. She is described as tall, supple, and of "almost tigerish strength." When we add that she speaks in a husky voice and uses tangerine perfume, any reader familiar with One-a-minute-Oppenheim can visualize the type...