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...says Mann, in one of his ecstatic outbursts, "is the most beautiful, austerest, blithest, most sacred symbol of all supra-reasonable human striving for ... truth and fullness" but it is also "only one humanistic discipline among others; all of them, philosophy, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, even the natural sciences and technology . . . are only variations ... of one and the same high and interesting theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magic Mountains | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Correspondents who sought out the new President found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First President | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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