Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's State of the Union Message, the time is overripe for a new translation of the American theme-freedom through order. Does it make contemporary sense that Europe continues as a fractured continent, no part of which is able to sustain industrial mass production or even to defend itself? Does it make sense that Arabs and Israelis continue to defy the law by prolonging a quarrel that neither can win? Does it make sense that Asia, wishing only for national freedom and economic progress, is allowed to drift toward slavery and reaction...
...disagreement with my views of art and beauty lie [Nov. 28]; I am flattered by the attention he has paid me. There is someone, however, to whom I believe he has done a grave injustice in his book [The Eye of Man] -an artist not here to defend himself. I speak of the Pole, Jan Styka, close friend of Paderewski and one of the great men of his day, creator of the 200-ft.-wide painting Crucifixion at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, Calif. [TIME, April 2, 1951]. If Mr. Rodman's book is on sale a decade...
Canadian officials tried manfully to defend their embarrassing position. For one thing, they protested that they were unaware that Czechoslovakia was a New Zealand butter customer. Then Canadian Agriculture Minister James Gardiner explained that since such a comparatively small amount of butter was involved, the matter was unimportant. "This is nothing like the wheat situation," said Gardiner. "We've only got about 10 or 12 million Ibs. of butter that we don't need, and we're prepared to take a lower price for it." That was entirely correct-and it was virtually the same explanation that...
...Jodhpur State. He was also a proud man. When he was suspended from his job for "misconduct in service" on the basis of vague charges, he telephoned the chief minister and insisted on a hearing. During the talk he became giddy. After waiting a month and a half to defend himself publicly, he was extremely tense and complained of feeling ill. Then-according to the American Journal of Psychiatry, reporting the case for the first time in the U.S.-Lodha had two sharp bouts of malarial fever. Finally, he fell into a deep stupor. He could have passed...
...Villain, he pours irresistible common sense on the woozled thinking of those who argue that Alger Hiss may have been guilty, but still scorn Whittaker Chambers as an "informer." Says Koestler: "To talk of betrayal [by Chambers of Hiss] where loyalty would mean persistence in crime [is] to defend the agents of an evil regime on the grounds that those who denounce it are no saints." ¶The Seven Deadly Fallacies (e.g., confusion of Left and East, the anti-anti attitude) and a brilliant Guide to Political Neuroses (e.g., collective amnesia, eternal adolescence) are probably his most valuable essays...