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...easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world." But for others, the God issue?including whether or not he is dead???has been put aside as irrelevant. "Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God," says one such politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Lévi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the Collège de France. "I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe." Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: Toward a Hidden God | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...Debby?Max Steels. 2. The Wall? John Hersey. 3. Burmese Days?George Orwell 4. The Egyptian? Mika Waltari. 5. The Naked and the Dead???Norman Mailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Just how many Austrians wanted their "independence" guaranteed by other nations, the Italians in particular, will never be known, but it is safe to assume that of the 500,000 people who filed past the Dollfuss bier, 300,000 were there to make certain he was dead???not, as you infer, to do him honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...Guiberson Diesel engine which permits the propeller to turn freely in a glide while the engine is throttled or dead??? "free wheeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Roll Call | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...actor. In this talkie he pulls a little boy out of a French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman, but he tells the little boy he is an antiquarian. That makes the audience cry. The little boy's mother is dead???she committed suicide?so Chevalier takes him to the junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star of one of those French musical comedies where the girls roll their eyes like Irene Bordoni. Some of the songs are in English, but the better ones are French?"Les Ananas" and "Valentine." Best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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