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When the finds are properly studied, Fairservis hopes they will throw light on one of the darkest mysteries of man's past: What common ancestor, if any, begot the flourishing civilizations of Mesopotamia, India and China? When written history began, these centers were developing independently, completely cut off from one another by virtually impassable barriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey to Afghanistan | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...spring from? Like most great legends, Hedda's girlhood, as she recalls it, is swirled in mist, lit by occasional flashes of fire. She was born Elda Furry, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (near Altoona), in 1890. Her father, a meat dealer descended from a long line of Quaker ministers, begot a long line of children (nine), of whom Elda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gossipist | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Actually, not Kierkegaard but German Philosopher Martin Heidegger (a Nazi from 1932-34), begot Existentialism. Heidegger's ultimately cynical subjectivism rather than the Danish prophet's Christian profundity determined Sartre's concept of man's responsibility: "Man is free to act, but he must act to be free. If he fails to choose a social or political line of action, he is not a Being; he is Nothingness." Should, by chance, Christian ethics permeate man's action, Sartre does not mind-not because it is Christian but because it is moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Existentialism | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Tale (by William Shakespeare; produced by The Theatre Guild) dates from that final period of Shakespeare's when reality-even real people-had seemingly begun to bore him. His plays became such stuff as dreams are made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...four children at home. Church records reveal that practically every other year for more than 30, they became either parents or grandparents. All told, they had eleven children, who produced 60, who in turn produced 226 more. One Trudel had 16 children, ten of whom married; the ten begot no less than ten children each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: The Trudels | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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