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So long as he is merely critical of the old, he rips along as delightfully as in Chapter I. But the planning itself begins dubiously and ends with the grim words, "a diversity about fundamentals is intolerable." With this destruction of individualism, Noah Wells makes clear the fact that Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leaky Ark | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Between the mainland of North Carolina and a string of shifting sandbanks that make one of the most treacherous regions of the Atlantic coast lies the verdant ten-mile strip of Roanoke Island. There Sir Walter Raleigh made his early and unsuccessful attempts to colonize the land which he, ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Macaulay at Roanoke | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Cracked Delegate Dimond: "If you should happen to see him [Wilbur Pledge Brown] walking down the street with Ananias on one side and Sapphira on the other you might be certain that he was in the bosom of his family."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pledge Brown | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Walter Pach set out to be a painter. He presently found that he and everyone else had more fun when he criticized other people's paintings (Ananias or the False Artist, The Masters of Modern Art, An Hour of Art). A little, well-liked man muffling a torrent of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pach in Paint | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

President Roosevelt adopted the three Hoover categories of news, and did not promise to answer all questions. But he limited his audience strictly to the regular White House corps; and he permitted quotation only of his exact words, as recorded by the stenographers. The complete transcript of every press conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hello, Steve | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

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