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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country soaked in Dominican rum and blinded by the tropical sun if he didn't see the many large beautiful public schools, the big modern hospitals, the new university city, the newly constructed and well-paved roads, the ports, and the hundreds upon hundreds of public facilities built by my government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...commercial heart of the British Empire, the physical City of London is a square mile of tangled alleyways originally built for handcarts and daily clogged with motorcar traffic. When the bombs fell, they at least opened spaces that had not seen the sun for centuries. After the war, Londoners began to hope that what Sir Christopher Wren was never able to do for the City after the Great Fire of 1666, a modern architect might do. But the new buildings that arose haphazardly were the same old "Bankers' Georgian," and each day 350,000 businessmen, clerks and stevedores still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Out of the Ruins | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...great square built around the ruins of the St. Giles Church tower. A cultural center, built around a new Guildhall School of Music and Drama, housing a library, art gallery and restaurant. Near the school will be an artificial lake, a theater and concert hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Out of the Ruins | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...island city that Sir Stamford Raffles founded in tropical swamps 140 years ago. Sir William, the last British Governor, had his own particular ties to Singapore. As a corporal captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore, Sir William was one of the hard-worked British prisoners who built the famed bridge over the River Kwai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: The Takeover | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...modes, and focused on the truth value of factual propositions. And it was Luther who proclaimed "the priesthood of all believers," declaring that each man had the right of genuine personal judgment before God on the most intimate matters relating to his soul. Protestant Christianity seems to have had built into it, from the first, a remorseless central drive toward absolute sincerity in the acceptance of liberal truth--a condition that has evidently proved self-undermining so far as the faith of a large number of Harvard undergraduates is concerned. And the factor that stands in second place as cause...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

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