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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fletcher Pratt performed a public service when he exposed the Army and Navy's fraudulent press relations and censorship practices [TIME, Feb. 11] during World War II. . . . Actually, the Navy has no concept of public relations. One Annapolis arrogant thought [the term] meant kinfolk on charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...Willkie Award-a trip around the world, sponsored by Freedom House and the Common Council for American Unity. Skipping lightly over all other U.S. writers and artists, the two organizations thought Corwin's On a Note of Triumph and other writings the best "contributions [of 1945] to the concept of One World, in the field of mass communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prizes for Corwin | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Only democracy seems to offer this hope to mankind at large, the opportunity to regain their Christian concept of human dignity and worth. In this hope, Spellman proclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: America in Rome | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Conversely, the body of American jurisprudence, "the problems of the Sherman Act, for example, tie in with the issue of international cartels. Public regulation in the field of aircraft, also, immediately transcends any purely national concept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPANSION OF AMERICAN LAW SEEN BY LANDIS | 2/8/1946 | 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 »

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