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Rough going had been encountered by the Masses in its efforts to remain a medium for free interpretation in a time of hysteria. Because of its pitiless reporting in trying to reveal true causes, its lack of respect for commercialized religion, and its attacks on sex taboos in art and literature, the magazine had earlier been barred from the reading rooms of many libraries, ousted from the subway and elevated news stands in New York, and refused by distributing companies of Boston and Philadelphi
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― Art Young: His Life and Times
― Art Young: His Life and Times
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...Saygıdeğer Bede, kuyrukluyıldızların "krallıklarda devrimler çıkacağına, vebaya, savaşa, rüzgâra ya da sıcağa alamet" olduğunu söylemişti. John Knox kuyrukluyıldızlara tanrısal öfkenin kanıtları gözüyle bakar, başka İskoç Protestanları ise bunların, "Katoliklerin kökünü kazıtması için krala bir ihtar" olduğunu düşünürlerdi. Kuyrukluyıldızlar yönünden Amerika, özellikle de New England haklı olarak ilgi çekici bir yerdir. 1652 yılında, tam ünlü Mr. Cotton'un hastalandığı sırada bir kuyrukluyıld
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― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
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