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Said he: "The principal and perhaps the only solid hope for preventing the use of atomic energy for destruction on a scale that has not yet been disclosed is for peoples everywhere to come to understand . . . this new critter, the atom, and what it holds for evil and for good . . . and to understand thereby the opportunities that lie before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Those of Little Thought | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Huffed plump Sir Alexander Maxwell, leader of Britain's tourist drive: "I trust Miss Young will have the good sense to retract. . . . There is not an atom of truth in any of her statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Darkest England | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Kashmir. Religious feelings still ran high from the autumn massacres in the Punjab; Sikh and Hindu refugees demanded revenge against Pakistan, and were forcing Moslems out of their homes. War fever caught on in Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan hopefully exclaimed: "Every Pakistani is an atom bomb in himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Comeback | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...themselves with flaunting their own fragile tatters of personal experience, and the abstractionists who take refuge in a pseudo-scientific picture of life as a composition of light rays and whirling particles-necessarily hide their gifts at Christmas. The only truth that many of them recognize is in the atom, which gives off not radiance but radioactivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gifts for God | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Blood in the Landscape. By the chilling glare of the atom, the dawn of the Renaissance seems a time of earthly happiness. It was indeed an age of Faith and Hope, but not often of Charity. Revenge was a point of honor, and perennial feuds cursed the children of families and states alike. The blood of the unjustly slain, which flows like an ever-widening river through the embattled landscape of European history, was already running deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gifts for God | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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