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Back home in Laos, politicians and army chiefs were panting to make a deal with Souvanna, in hopes that his pro-Russian "neutralism" could hold out for at least a while against his half brother's Communism, which is uncompromising and jungle-bred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Marred Charm | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...Three. That left one Republican well in front: New York State's able Attorney General Louis Jacob Lefkowitz, 56. Born and bred in Manhattan's Lower East Side slums, sad-eyed Louis Lefkowitz worked his way through Fordham law school, worked faithfully for the Republicans during their leanest years, was tapped as a city judge by La Guardia, later did handsomely in private law practice, and has proved himself a hard and effective campaigner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Searching Party | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...complete concert with none of these organizations is Israel's Ben-Gurion. Bred in Czarist Poland, Ben-Gurion cannot understand how any Jew can possibly be happy or productive living outside Israel. Thus believing that a true Zionist must necessarily commit himself to settling in Israel, Ben-Gurion has branded U.S. Zionists as hypocrites, and has fenced for years on the issue with Zionist President Goldmann. Speaking to the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last December, Ben-Gurion threw fresh fuel on the controversy by interjecting a Talmudic passage: "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: What Is a Jew? | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...idea (Kennedy called it "utopia" in his speech) that not only politics but dissent as well stop at the waterline, by recruiting many of its most active critics into the Executive branch. The concentration of a body of experts, combined with too much talk of national purpose, has bred the singular philosophy that the Administration's planners are capable of producing a single, right foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The President and the Press: II | 5/9/1961 | See Source »

...English Bible: New ent has bred in this reviewer sadness: much of it is very . All too often the transla crossed the fine limits of propriety; all too often have abandoned the rhythm he power of the Authorized for the jingle, the lifeless of bureaucracy, the quick and thoughtless uglyness of the contemporary idiom. I presume it will be accepted by the Protestant churches of this country; I hope it will be zealously neglected...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The New English Bible: Truth in Bureaucratese | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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