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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's voice, if it is to be powerful among the masses of people, must do more than talk of the glories of democracy. We must show the way with practical programs of social reconstruction. The European Recovery Program serves that end; and so does the China Aid Act, at least in part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: A System That Works | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden had declared it an "overt act," and had refused to communicate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Their Sisters & Their Cousins ... | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature . . . a grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Rhythm Mentality | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...sound of Bow Bells. Her parents, she remembers, were "a bit arty-went in for pacifism, vegetarianism, Socialism and all that." At ten, she met Raymond Duncan, who sent her to study dancing with his sister Isadora. At 16, Elsa organized a London theater company, which put on one-act plays by Chekhov and Pirandello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Elsa's Gazebo | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Hope's the Thing (by Richard Harrity; produced by Eddie Dowling) was a rather rare event: an evening of playlets on Broadway by a man who had never had a play there. When the Experimental Theatre recently staged one-act plays by an assortment of playwrights, Harrity's Hope Is the Thing with Feathers* so ran away with the reviews that Producer Dowling offered Harrity a one-man show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Playlets in Manhattan, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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