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...murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brightest in Dungeons | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Have you reported what happened to the murderer of Trotsky? Was there a trial or has the whole matter been suppressed ? I confess to curiosity as to some explanation of the mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...book is doubly interesting because 15 years ago Dr. Niebuhr was himself an outstanding exponent of the liberal credo he now seeks to discredit as opportunism, calling it "a religious accommodation to the prejudices of bourgeois culture." "I confess," he wrote in The Christian Century, "that between Versailles and Munich I underwent a conversion which involved rejection of almost all the liberal theological ideals and ideas with which I first ventured forth. My first book contains almost all the windmills against which today I tilt." In the light of history, especially from 1920 to 1940, he finds liberal optimism about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sin Rediscovered | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: German Martyrs | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...might be of interest for you to know that your excellent Science section has often helped me in humanizing otherwise dry scientific facts. The swing tempo and pungent phrases I give to these lectures, I must confess, are frequently inspired by TIME. And so, in addition to expressing my present appreciation, I wish also to thank you for the inspirations and many, many interesting hours . . . since the "very beginning of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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