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So the Catholic-baiting legions are at last on the march in Alabama. Good. By next year, with the anti-Catholic madness reaching its peak, Southern Protestantism will again be revealed for what it is: an obscene collection of bigoted, Bible-clutching morons, the benighted cult of a corrupt and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

benighted waters:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homer Continued | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Why is the U.S. the most marrying and divorcing nation in Western Christendom? Last week this phenomenon absorbed some 1,000 delegates from six countries at the National Catholic Family Life Convention in Buffalo. The Rev. Lucius F. Cervantes, Jesuit sociologist at Denver's Regis College, blamed the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Thoughts for the Family | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Stepping off a ship in Manhattan, Florentine Artist Pietro Annigoni, whose straightforward canvases are as unminced as his words, quickly ticked off a number of his benighted contemporaries and their works. Of protean Pablo Picasso: "Bad for art; he desires to destroy much of the old tradition." Of the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Eager to confer the global franchise upon benighted nationalists in Berlin, leather-jacketed World Citizen Garry Davis fluttered from Canada to Le Havre, drifted into West Germany, got netted at Oebisfelde by East German border guards after he flashed his credentials (his do-it-yourself World Passport 000.001). Bounced back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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