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He suggests that courses in Christian culture may be worked out by secular experts in the same way that Great Books courses were formulated and coordinated-with different courses of study, such as literature, history, art, philosophy and education. The teaching of Christianity as a social and historical phenomenon is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity as Culture | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Perhaps the time had come, the President concluded, to re-examine the responsibilities of a free society's free press: "This nation's foes have openly boasted of acquiring through our newspapers information they would otherwise hire agents to acquire . . . The newspapers which printed these stories were loyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Meaning of Freedom | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

He had become the inseparable companion of an artist named Amédée Ozenfant, and at the advanced age of 31, Jeanneret began to paint too. The two friends published a manifesto called After Cubism-"an optimistic, lyrical song on the beauty and lesson of machines, on buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corbu | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

If the Russians did not back away again, the decision would bring a sigh of relief in the U.S. For the Cuba fiasco had seriously damaged the U.S.'s bargaining position and its implied threat to get tough in Laos if its patience was tried too far. In a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Toward Nirvana | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Adenauer feared that if NATO failed to acquire an independent nuclear force and if the U.S. raised the threshold for employment of its own nuclear weapons, the Russians might be tempted to marshal their superior conventional military forces and march into West Germany.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Smoothed Feathers | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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