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Another way was supplied by Nature. The dust bowl of 1934-35 and the great drought of 1936 cut farm surpluses. But a fresh wave of poverty swept families westward from their deadlands to enact the saga of the Okies and tread the Grapes of Wrath...
...Religion without God; Christianity without Christ; Christ without Antichrist; Heaven without Hell; works without faith; a God of Love but not of Wrath; a Church that can bless but cannot curse...
...richest marriage prize of the middle ages, Eleanor married two kings and was the mother of two more. Cultured, spirited, and ambitious, she was an amazon on the Second Crusade, a lover at the Court of Poitiers, and a ruler ("by the wrath of God" as she put it) in her old age. Intellectual revolt, crusades, and struggle between church and state, marked the twelfth century, and Eleanor managed to have something to do with all of them. Miss Kelly user her as a "binder" for her history...
Eleven years ago, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath carried the hapless Joad family westward on highway 66 to a life of debased poverty on California's big, corporate-owned farms. Since then the story of the impoverished migrant worker in the rich San Joaquin Valley had been told with seasonal regularity in fiction and fact. And sometimes the two got badly mixed, as a congressional subcommittee on education and labor reported scathingly last week...
...long year-and that is certainly saying something . . ." The caustic editorialist was Michael Foot, 37, wiry, wily Laborite M.P., co-editor of the Socialist weekly Tribune (circ. 20,000) and onetime acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Tory London Evening Standard. What had roused Foot's wrath was the way the Standard (circ. 871,000) had handled John Strachey's appointment as Secretary of State for War (TIME, March...