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  Malcolm Muggeridge on Stalin's famine (PART I) (05/29/83)
He was talking about the genocidal famine that swept Ukraine and the adjacent North Caucasus, two of the most abundant lands in all of Europe, in the winter of 1932 and the spring and summer of 1933.
Malcolm Muggeridge was there that terrible winter and spring.
Muggeridge's articles appeared in the Guardian, the Soviet authorities declared Ukraine out of bounds to reporters and set about concealing the destruction they had wreaked.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1983/228321.shtml   (1692 words)

  
 Malcolm Muggeridge's Scourging of Liberalism
Malcolm Muggeridge, who for some decades has believed himself to be tottering on the brink of eternity, but who has survived most of his generation and stands at the height of his fame.
Muggeridge's indignation at the folly and the knavery, during his Moscow winter, of both Western visitors to Russia and foreign correspondents posted there became the recurring theme of his several books and his almost innumerable periodical pieces.
Malcolm and Kitty Muggeridge had arrived in Moscow quite as credulous about the dictatorship of the Proletariat as were the other visitors whose foolishness he soon would denounce.
www.heritage.org /Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL229.cfm   (3569 words)

  
  A Fireside Chat with Malcolm Muggeridge - A Book Review   (Site not responding. Last check: )
AS A JOURNALIST, editor, author, TV host and reporter, Malcolm Muggeridge is one of those with his hand on the pulse of the modern world and, since he is intelligent besides, his words carry a good bit of weight.
Muggeridge to similar ones on the general state of the Church and particularly on those churchmen who have given themselves over to liberalism in its religious form, that is, modernism.
Muggeridge is reluctant to denounce defects in the Church at length—after all, the newest member of the household of the faithful should not immediately begin to complain about the housekeeping.
www.sspx.ca /Angelus/1985_April/Fireside_Chat.htm   (1150 words)

  
 Malcolm Muggeridge: a modern pilgrim Modern Age - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Muggeridge was born at the beginning of the last century in England in 1903.
Malcolm Muggeridge's father rose from a humble background and became a Socialist MP.H.T. Muggeridge was part of the age and thus a great believer in the new gospel of liberal progress.
Muggeridge would become more confirmed in his belief that the twentieth century was a nightmare because man tried to set up an earthy paradise based on human knowledge and power without any reference to God.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0354/is_2_47/ai_n15338215   (882 words)

  
 The Hindu : Sharp, witty and original
Muggeridge is best remembered in our country as the man who "discovered" Mother Teresa —; the journalist whose impassioned reporting of her work, captured first on BBC television and then more memorably in the 1969 book Something Beautiful for God, first catapulted the Kolkata missionary to worldwide attention.
Muggeridge also produced a remarkable amount of personal reflection, scribbling frank and perceptive dissections of his contemporaries into his diaries (for the delectation thereafter of a wide readership), and authoring two volumes of memoirs with the delicious title Chronicles of Wasted Time.
Muggeridge was so contemptuous of the soap-opera conduct of the British royal family in the 1950s that the BBC briefly exiled him from the ether (he was too popular for them to banish him altogether).
www.hindu.com /thehindu/mag/2003/08/03/stories/2003080300020300.htm   (1030 words)

  
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Malcolm Muggeridge, who for some decades has believed himself to be tottering on the brink of eternity, but who has survived most of his generation and stands at the height of his fame.
The Muggeridges believed earnestly that they were departing from a dying bourgeois culture to participate in a "new civilization," in which the human potential would be fulfilled.
Malcolm and Kitty Muggeridge had arrived in Moscow quite as credulous about the dictatorship of the Proletariat as were the other visitors whose foolishness he soon would denounce.
www.catholiceducation.org /articles/catholic_stories/cs0037.html   (3528 words)

  
 The Final Verdict
Muggeridge was appointed the deputy editor of The Statesman, the city's (and the country's) major English language newspaper, and the subcontinent's main apologist for the Raj.
Muggeridge decided that the best way to bring his new found heroine to the attention of the world would be through a television film, and he soon persuaded the BBC to agree to a film on her, to be shot on location in Calcutta.
Muggeridge died a happy man, knowing that the Catholic church had eventually wholeheartedly accepted his 'first authentic photographic miracle' as such; moreover, as the world has moved more and more towards religious orthodoxy and irrationality, there are fewer today than there were in 1969 who would reject his arguments as calculated disingenuousness.
www.meteorbooks.com /chap3.html   (9624 words)

  
 Touchstone Magazine 12.1 - The Collision of Two Minds   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Muggeridge said that for him, embracing Christianity was a question of faith, not rational proof, but it was, at the same time, a reasonable faith.
Muggeridge also spelled out his profound disappointment with the Anglican Church because it, too, he said, had capitulated to modernity in such areas as birth control and abortion and was no longer a fit place to hang one’s spiritual hat.
Muggeridge too, must be given credit for his prophetic stance that communism would fail and that the mass media and entertainment industry would be largely responsible for the moral breakdown of Western Christendom.
www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/12.1docs/collision.html   (3550 words)

  
 About the Author- Malcolm Muggeridge
Born in 1903, Malcolm Muggeridge has emerged as one of the notable figures of the twentieth century.
Malcolm and Kitty Muggeridge remained in Moscow for the fall and winter of 1932-33, where he served as a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian.
Muggeridge’s wit and style endeared him to many as he became a popular (and controversial) figure on radio and television.
www.wheaton.edu /learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc04/bio.htm   (842 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Malcolm Muggeridge: Books: Gregory Wolfe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This biography chronicles the long and turbulent life of Malcolm Muggeridge, one of the most brilliant controversialists and media personalties of his generation whose late-in-life coming to Christ is one of the great conversion stories of this century.
A very strongly recommended addition to academic and community library collections, Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography is a straightforward study of the life and impact of Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990), a British writer and social critic at the center of controversy for his generation.
Malcolm Muggeridge is a literary icon of sorts, a man who called Orwell, Greene and Powell friends, whose image was displayed in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks Museum in London, who was a celebrity editor and tv personality in Britain for much of his life.
www.amazon.ca /Malcolm-Muggeridge-Gregory-Wolfe/dp/0340606746   (441 words)

  
 Malcolm Muggeridge, Touchstone Magazine, TCRNews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Muggeridge returned to England, where he wrote leaders (editorials) for the Manchester Guardian, the leading newspaper of progressive opinion of its day and the height of achievement for the young, idealistic socialist that he then was.
Muggeridge’s reporting was contradicted preeminently by Walter Duranty, Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, a man whom Muggeridge later called “the greatest liar I have ever met”—a reporter who nonetheless was awarded a Pulitzer prize for his reporting on the Soviet Union.
In the 1960s and 1970s Muggeridge operated as a sort of freelance world correspondent; as he put it, he had taken up the hazards of street-walking in preference to the security, such as it was, of being an inmate of a licensed house.
www.tcrnews2.com /touchstone2.html   (5026 words)

  
 OFF THE TELLY: Reviews/2003/Time Shift: Malcolm Muggeridge
For Muggeridge himself has now become almost a specialist subject, although the excellent documentary Time Shift: Malcolm Muggeridge resurrected some - there could never be enough time for anything like all - of the achievements and controversies that had made him a household name.
Time Shift: Malcolm Muggeridge was made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth and gave a full and rounded insight in to the career, if not altogether the mind, of one of the formerly most vital parts of the intellectual life of television in Britain.
Ironically it is difficult to conclude that it would very unlikely a man such as Malcolm Muggeridge would achieve the same fame in modern television without sounding as distinctly curmudgeonly as he eventually became.
www.offthetelly.co.uk /reviews/2003/malcolmmuggeridge.htm   (618 words)

  
 Malcolm Muggeridge's spiritual evolution
Malcolm and Kitty Muggeridge spent the fall and winter of 1932-33 in Moscow, where he was a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian.
Muggeridge's wit and style endeared him to many as he became a popular (and controversial) figure on radio and television.
Muggeridge, Malcolm, Confessions of a 20th-Century Pilgrim, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1988, 138-141,134-135.
www.thewords.com /articles/mugquest.htm   (1700 words)

  
 Malcolm Muggeridge's journey by Roger Kimball
Muggeridge was one of the first—perhaps he was the first—Western journalist to expose the awful brutality of Soviet totalitarianism.
Muggeridge has discovered and wishes to explain is the ancient piece of folk-wisdom that Lust and Love are antithetical and that Lust is boring.” Muggeridge’s life is an illustration of the Pascalian insight that restlessness is a secret friend of boredom, feeding on what it abominates in order to sustain itself.
The fact that Muggeridge launched Mother Teresa as a celebrity in the late 1960s, devoting a television show and book to her life and work, seemed to underscore the divide between Muggeridge the worldly wit and Muggeridge the retiring ascetic.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/jun03/mugger.htm   (3024 words)

  
 Books, Arts & Manners September 1, 1997
Muggeridge was, at various times, a hard-line socialist, a selfish adulterer, a courageous denouncer of the Soviet Union, an author of ``flawed'' plays and novels, a vegetarian, a convert to Roman Catholicism, and a Christian apologist.
Muggeridge thought modern society had lost its values -- that is, its priorities, its ability to discriminate between the great and the trivial.
Muggeridge the performer, the rent-a-quote debunker, the supercilious ``wit,'' is really showing a form of disgust with the world that eventually makes sense in relation to the convert to ``the two cities'' of Augustinian Catholicism.
www.nationalreview.com /01sept97/digby090197.html   (1207 words)

  
 Communications and Public Affairs
Muggeridge was a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian from 1930-33 and later was on the editorial staff of the Calcutta Statesman, the Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph.
Muggeridge, said Hunter, "spent half a century preoccupied with religious questions." He began his career as an agnostic socialist but in 1982 converted to Roman Catholicism.
Muggeridge came to Western, and the journalism school had 12 months with the man who was "probably the journalist who could best use the English language at the time" says MacFarlane.
communications.uwo.ca /western_news/story.html?listing_id=5692   (1002 words)

  
 Theology Today - Vol 38, No. 2 - July 1981 - BOOK REVIEW - Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life
In the seventy-eight years since then, Malcolm Muggeridge's combination of wonder and skepticism has served him well and made him perhaps the most colorful, controversial, and consistently irritating personality of the English-speaking world.
The author, a professor of law by trade, admits that he is an admirer of his subject and that he has "passed some of the most pleasurable hours of my life in his company" and "learned more from him than any other human being." Nevertheless, he has kept his cool and done a scholarly job.
Hunter describes the minor and major traumas and controversies of Muggeridge's life, from his education and difficult early years as a struggling young journalist in India to his disillusionment with the Soviet Union and his emergence as the TV personality everyone loves to scorn.
theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1981/v38-2-bookreview14.htm   (459 words)

  
 Intercollegiate Studies Institute - ISI Books - Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990), British writer and social critic, was one of the most brilliant controversialists and media personalities of his generation.
According to Wolfe, Muggeridge, like St. Augustine, endured a lifelong conflict between flesh and spirit, between deep involvement in the world and the need to withdraw from it.
Ultimately though, Muggeridge, one of the finest prose stylists of the twentieth century, was a passionate pilgrim in the pursuit of truth and a defender of the Christian faith who deserves to take his place alongside G. Chesterton and C. Lewis.
www.isi.org /books/bookdetail.aspx?id=52c0b4e1-c509-44b0-b0e1-f6e99fd5386e   (276 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, by Malcolm Muggeridge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
...While Muggeridge's sentiments about the intellectual world of his own time are strikingly similar, fate, alas, seems to have seen fit to place him in one of the more prominent cages...
...Thus, Mencken was at his height during the 20's, as Muggeridge is in the 60's, both periods without major wars or economic depressions-times in which men have the leisure and money to indulge in stupidity and to scramble their values on a really grand scale...
...Muggeridge's targets, though no less pervasive, are rather more amorphous: modern affluS.Y.Agnon Co-winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize TWO TALES Stories of two cities and two times and two dispositions of the heart...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V42I6P96-1.htm   (1844 words)

  
 A Hundred Years of Muggery
Those of us who experience difficulty in recognizing this as genuine humility always used to have a fine old time at the expense of Malcolm Muggeridge, the centennial of whose birth in 1903 has caused a small flurry of notice this year, thirteen years after his death in 1990.
Here was a man ever-ready to uncork a sermon about the fallen state of the species and the pathetic vanity of our earthly desires--all while he was notorious as an apostle of carnality and a ringmaster at the circus of his own self-promotion.
Muggeridge was married to Beatrice Webb's niece, Kitty, and had been brought up in that area of the British Left that was bounded by the Fabian Society, the New Statesman, the London School of Economics, and Bloomsbury more generally.
www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/607xdxhe.asp   (569 words)

  
 The Image Store - Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography (hc)
This biography chronicles the long, turbulent life of Malcolm Muggeridge, perhaps the most brilliant controversialist and media personality of his generation.
According to Wolfe, Muggeridge, like St. Augustine, endured a life-long conflict between flesh and spirit, deep involvement in the world and the need to withdraw from it.
This biography argues that Malcolm Muggeridge was a prophetic scourge of the follies and fantasies of our time, one of the finest prose stylists of the twentieth century, and a defender of the Christian faith who deserves to take his place alongside G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis.
www.imagejournal.org /eshop/10Expand.asp?ProductCode=B04   (130 words)

  
 Malcolm Muggeridge Centenary: the journalist who reported that more than 7 million starved to death in Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
From left to right, Sally Muggeridge, niece of Malcolm Muggeridge, Leonard, eldest son of Malcolm Muggeridge, Malcolm Muggeridge and his wife Kitty, standing outside Park Cottage, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, where they lived for a while.
Grave where Malcolm and his wife Kitty are buried, at the Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, Whatlington, East Sussex.
Muggeridge had been Moscow correspondent for the Manchester Guardian during the early 1930s, and had written articles about the Ukrainian famine, which according to Muggeridge’s first biographer, Ian Hunter, had eventually cost him his job.
www.brama.com /news/press/030730leliw_muggeridge.html   (1117 words)

  
 SSPXAsia.com:
"So Malcolm Muggeridge has died, at the venerable age of 87.  He was a famous journalist and broadcaster in the English-speaking world, but especially in his own country, England, and in his later years he converted to Catholicism.  Countless souls seeking God owe him a great deal.  I was one of them.  Dear Malcolm!
Malcolm said the mere idea of receiving Communion was something still alien to him...
Muggeridge  compared his own vilification by liberal media to similar treatment from certain quarters towards Archbishop Lefebvre.
www.sspxasia.com /Documents/Catholic_Sermons/Malcolm-Muggeridge.htm   (546 words)

  
 ::: Quadrant Magazine | Australia's independent review of literature & ideas :::
Schapiro insisted that Muggeridge was not anti- Semitic but seemed to believe, as did many foreign correspondents in Moscow, that communism had been imposed on Russia by Jews thirsting for vengeance against the old regime.
Muggeridge asked the producer if he would be kind enough to reduce the précis to fifty pages.
Muggeridge found Christ not in Thomism or existentialism but in the notes of the Plainsong, the paintings of El Greco, the songs of Blake.
www.quadrant.org.au /php/bookwriteup.php   (1851 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Something Beautiful for God: Books: Malcolm Muggeridge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I found Malcom Muggeridge's portrayal of Mother Teresa penetrating, very helpful and in a small volume you receive a good idea of the woman who may well be recognized as a saint during our lifetime.
Malcolm Muggeridge did indeed introduce Mother Teresa to the Western World as the book description said.
Mother Teresa is such a dynamic and profound personality, indeed so much a reflection of her Savior, that just meeting her has inspired much reflection, conviction, and devotion in the mind and heart of Malcolm Muggeridge.
www.amazon.ca /Something-Beautiful-God-Malcolm-Muggeridge/dp/0060660430   (1513 words)

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