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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington lawyer, 32-year-old Adam Yarmolinsky, onetime law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, found frequent occasion to wonder about the mysterious operation of the U.S. Government's security program, conducted behind closed doors, with vague charges, unnamed witnesses, and questionable verdicts. Yarmolinsky, along with some other inquisitive lawyers, decided to try to find out about the security program. Working under a $50,000 grant from the Fund for the Republic, the Yarmolinsky group has studied some 300 security cases over the past year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITY: An Orwellian Glimpse | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...turn subject to God. Raphael, who painted the pagan divinity Galatea for Chigi's palace, also made the Vatican shine with Christian and pagan subjects, depicting the company of the saints and a synod of ancient sages opposite one another, making companion pictures of the fall of Adam and Eve and the flaying of Marsyas, and facing an allegorical fresco of the three chief Christian virtues with one of Parnassus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Deathless Ones | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

Seated side by side in the House Education and Labor Committee room were New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in his spare time, and West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey, who preaches the gospel pretty much according to John L, Lewis. Under discussion was the $1.6 billion school-construction program and Powell's attempt to amend it so as to bar funds to any school district that practices segregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Symptom on the Cheek | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...tone of L.C. Austin's extended dirty joke does not change, but one wishes it would, for his poem on Nat. Sci. 3 is horrible, not only in conception, but in expression. Mr. Austin should discover the distinction between serious sensuality and blatantly lewd writing. In contrast, Anne Adams writes of Adam and Eve, seriously and with some success...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Freshman Review | 5/18/1955 | See Source »

...World War I (he is now a U.S. citizen). Gifted and versatile (Rasputin, the Holy Devil, The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, Triumph Over Pain), he has now written a strange, heavily symbolic, sometimes embarrassingly earnest novel. The Night of Time is a kind of Kafkaesque parable. But Adam and the men of Hill 317 have a saving humanity and individuality that Kafka's sleepwalkers lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Forgotten Hill | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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