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"The nun came to me in tears. 'I was unable to save the soul of that poor creature,' she told me. The sister was wrong. In this woman's death cry there lay only the dramatic and profound aspiration of all Spain's poor for better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Liberals in Spain | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Merits and Morals. Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, a heartfelt story of South African racial problems, was admired as much for its merits as for its morals. So was the strangest parable of the year: Ernst Juenger's On the Marble Cliffs (published in Germany in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Sweet & Young. To her practiced eye, the debutante party is a poor pitch. The boys from Harvard, Yale and Princeton who throng the stag line and trace the source of champagne and Scotch to the pantry with the single-minded cunning of a parched mongoose, are not what she is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Wise Beyond Years | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Says Dart: "These intelligent, energetic, erect and delicately-proportioned little people were as competent as any other primitive human group in cavern life made comfortable by the use of fire, in the employment of long bones as lethal weapons, in the cunning and courage of the chase and in internecine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fireman | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

In the main, however, Life With Mother, like Life With Father, is the broadly painted picture of a man and a marriage, the chronicle of a household and record of a class. Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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