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...book is a reformers book, in a sense akin to "Uncle Tom's Cabin," though it is far more temperate, and based on a deeper knowledge of actual social and economic conditions. It is throughly shameful for such a book to be banned in Boston at the very time when we need to examine every phase of our American race problems with something of Lillian Smith's care and wisdom. To those who believe that the fight against Fascism must begin at home, here is an opportunity to rally enlightened public opinion in order to prevent the recurrence of such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/24/1944 | See Source »

Work and Play seems as exhausted as France. The conflicts are spiritless, the dialogues read like editorials, the goings-on of all the characters, with no one of whom the reader feels akin, seem meaningless. The pathos of the novel is extraneous. It lies in the reader's dark foreknowledge of what was so soon to happen to this France that Remains describes. All these picnics, love affairs, speeches, quarrels, schemes, crimes, recollections, arguments about the future, projects for preventing war-this, Romains seems to say, was he best that French intelligence was doing. Few of the actions were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction's Maignot Line | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...interest is closely akin to, if indeed it is not the same as, the interest protected by the First Amendment [freedom of speech, press, religion]; it presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many this is, and always will be, folly; but we have staked upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Decision in re A.P. | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...employe and friend, now a refugee who writes under a pseudonym: Junkers and the technical genius of Ernst Heinkel. A year after the Armistice, a small group of aviation enthusiasts was meeting for glider contests in the little mountain village of Gersfeld. The army became interested. In an atmosphere akin to that of an old-fashioned detective story, planes and aircraft factories were secretly built under the eyes of the Inter-Allied Control Commission. Planes were hidden in nearby meadows when inspectors came through the factories. When the Allied Commission departed in 1926, Germany had the nucleus of a powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Common Quality | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Plans for practical field problems in the Statistical officers' duties are in the hatching stage. We cannot promise air-raids or strafing conditions for you to work through, but it is hoped that something akin thereto can be worked out. Quick, Albert, fetch me my tin hat, our Student Status Report in tardy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATISTICACKLES | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

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