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Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" ("Not only is it dull but it is troublesome, and practically nobody ever reads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Read Any Good Books Lately? Here Are A Few You'll Loathe | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Das Rheingold, with Hotter, Svanholm, Pechner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Deep in the Mato Grosso jungles, beyond the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths), live 15,000 Chavante Indians, members of the fiercest Indian tribe in all Brazil. For decades Brazil's Indian Protective Service agents have sought to tame and civilize the warlike Chavantes under their uniquely Brazilian motto of "pacification through love." Though the agents never used arms, even in self-defense, the ferocious Chavantes rebuffed them. One agent who dared to cross the River of Deaths was left dead under a pile of 1,000 war clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Love Finds a Way | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...hrungstuch (merit scarf); after that, he is eligible for the red scarf and white blouse that signify full-fledged membership. All of the pioneers get chances to march with banners and standards in Red mass rallies. After such parades, they can be heard telling each other "Das war Spass, nicht? [That was fun, wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Kids | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Hail of Complaints. As a result of the Congress Party's vacillation, India's Socialist Party, though still small, is gradually gaining members, many from disillusioned Congress ranks. A typical recent convert was Sarangdhar Das, an engineer, who summed up much of India's present resentments when he described a visit to his native province: "The villagers were no longer exulting in freedom. Instead, they came at me with a hail of complaints -where is our cloth, where is our food, where is our fuel? I urged them to plant trees for fuel. They pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Uncertain Freedom | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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