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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years. He became a Bolshevik a year before the Russian Revolution in 1917 and was a party member in good standing until arrested in Stalin's widespread purges of the mid-1930s. Not long after he was released from a labor camp, after Stalin's death in 1953, his daughter Nina gained posthumous fame in the Soviet Union as Russia's Anne Frank. At the age of 20, she had been executed by the Nazis for her part in a partisan raid, and her diary of the dark days of the German invasion, published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Eulogy for Alyosha | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...future Catholicism will revere or angry heresiarchs who will leave the fold in discouragement and dismay depends in large measure on the skill and sensitivity of Pope Paul. An accomplished ecclesiastical diplomat, he has successfully weathered one potential crisis by bringing Vatican II to a peaceful conclusion after the death of John XXIII. Some Catholic voices calling for reform he may rightly ignore as imprudent or irresponsible. Others he would probably do well to heed. If not, the "silent schism" of Catholicism may turn out to be very much noisier than it already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic Freedom v. Authority | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...prestige of the papacy reached its peak during the lengthy reign of the learned, ascetic Pius XII, who issued the only ex cathedra statement of the century that was clearly labeled infallible: his 1950 decree that Mary was assumed bodily into heaven after her death.* John XXIII, although a humble man who thought of himself as the servant of the church rather than as its overlord, possessed an undeniable charisma that delighted Catholics and non-Catholics alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic Freedom v. Authority | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...mental state of fear is just a name we give to the helpless feeling of being confronted by something totally unknown, and then trying to find an answer to it and being unable. People fear death because they have to explain it and can't; and they can consciously not fear a vaccination because they know enough about the pain...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...have all heard before with the impassioned logic we ourselves have all used before. Although they are the men to whom we have entrusted the solution of our present dilemma, they turn out to be nothing more than four struggling egos. Before us they perform a dance of death, for the riot is beginning in the streets...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Riot! | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

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