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If anything, the rebel colonels seemed to be practicing the venerable Indonesian tactic of sabar: the quality of biding time, to let the opponent make the mistakes. Unfortunately, in Western eyes, sabar is sometimes indistinguishable from paralysis. Sukarno was making mistakes, by leaning increasingly on the Communists and by straining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Waiting Game | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

This is highly salutary, but what does it mean for those interested in preserving the integrity of the educational institutions and the freedom of the academic mind? Have America's anti-intellectual powers given up, retreated, or lost interest? Or are they simply biding their time? Upon the answer to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward Academic Freedom | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

The Watery Mind. At this, "a number of bees quietly biding their time in the national bonnet sprang to life with an angry hum." Everyone, including the canon, knows that the nuns did skip over fires on Midsummer Eve, but this is nothing to the big fact that no Englishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Farce of the Year | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

This is highly salutary, but what does it mean for those interested in preserving the integrity of the educational institutions and the freedom of the academic mind? Have America's anti-intellectual powers given up, retreated, or lost interest? Or are they simply biding their time? Upon the answer to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward Academic Freedom | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

Yet few of the details which made the story so plausible have been adequately attested. U.S. and British investigation of Hitler's death did rot even begin until long after the Russians had made their own inquiry and carted off most of the evidence. "From personal and official knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Wagnerian Finale | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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