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"What writers belonging to the upper class have received from nature for nothing, plebeians acquire at the cost of their youth." James Farrell, a self-conscious plebeian -who has already estimated the cost of youth in the hundreds of thousands of words of his Studs Lonigan trilogy and Danny O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry, Clumsy Man | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

In your editorial, "U.N. or You Ain't," in the issue of May 7, you state: "Wars and rumors of wars can be eliminated by nothing short of an international state with world wide citizenship..." You state further: "Gradually, as the nations acquire more and more trust in it, U...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 5/18/1946 | See Source »

The situation is doubly damnable because there is at term's end enough furniture owned by men leaving college to satisfy most of the needs of the next term's arrivals. There is, however, no way by which the potential buyer is brought in contact with the seller. In the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Price Comfort? | 5/18/1946 | See Source »

Granted the present impossibility of a single world state, U.N. becomes the most feasible substitute. It is the best the nations are willing to accept. If it exercises its limited powers fairly and well, U.N. can create opinion favorable to an international government and can demonstrate that it is capable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. or You Ain't | 5/7/1946 | See Source »

Those tasks would encompass the entire field of atomic research, production, engineering and application. Traditional property rights were swept aside. In the atomic field there would be no such thing as private ownership. The commission would be sole owner or would acquire ownership of all facilities the U.S. might need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Gods of the Mountain | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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