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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from many secular publications. Undoubtedly, TIME knew the article would bring many letters of condemnation from bigoted, intolerant anti-Catholics who shut their eyes to the obvious sense of the Papacy's position on social issues which TIME summarized brilliantly. (Everyone but the most anti anti-Catholics will admit that the papal assertions on social issues must underlie any permanent peace.) However, this is what I would expect from TIME: a fearless, unprejudiced representation of the truth. REDMOND ROCHE JR. Ann Arbor, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1943 | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Even the cynical will admit that this is an excellent satire on the pseudo-cultured elite of our present-day business civilization. And it goes even one step further: it strips a 1943 movie of all its cheap thrills and tries to portray an intensely psychological situation, almost a "Turn of the Screw" of its own. Such effort, if nothing else, is commendable. For it makes some effort to "legitimatize" the screen into a point where not only the Hays office but all the standards of movieland are strict enough to produce a film that holds the delicate pattern that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 9/3/1943 | See Source »

...prison gates opened to admit prisoners returning from work. "Their sentry followed. . . . Four hands were stretched towards me behind my comrades: Marquet held my brief case; Finot held a wallet with my money and papers in it. Moineau and David held nothing but their fingers. . . . They felt rough, warm and kind. At this moment the ball hit the ground, two of the players slipped and fell, and Duclos ran towards Desprez with his fists raised . . . knocked him down brutally." The guards rushed up to intervene. Shedding his prison overcoat, Hélion "shot out" of the gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...realize that you would not admit even condoning the use of marijuana and that you would stand up for your right to print the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Food. "We should admit that, even in peacetime, English meals, on the average, were not particularly good. The average standard of cooking and eating in America was higher than ours, and it is a mistake to assume that all Americans live solely off tinned foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALLIES: Why We Behave Like Americans | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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