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...more action. When Prime Minister Herbert Asquith demurred, Hughes shouted: "I have a policy! You don't! If you expect me to sit like a stuffed dummy while there's a war to be won, you've picked the wrong man." Said Earl Balfour: "How I detest him!" But young Winston Churchill called him "a man of fire and comprehension, head and shoulders above his fellows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Little Digger | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Nothing but Color. In public, Cézanne was a granitic misanthrope who could snarl through his snarled beard: "Compared to me, my compatriots are asses. I detest them all." Privately, he was racked with self-doubt: "I am a timid man, a bohemian, and people laugh at me." Late in life, he confessed that his painting had "made some progress. Why so late and so painfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: I Am a Timid Man | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...tension of the opening sequence unwinds steadily in a dawdling intrigue of dishonor among thieves. Granger takes the painting to Tunis, where he meets silkenly villainous Art Dealer George Sanders ("You know I detest violence"), who has commissioned him to steal it. Granger tells Sanders that the painting was accidentally destroyed and proposes making forgeries instead for the wealthy collector's trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...reading of a bill to abolish the common informer. Said M.P. Major Edward Legge-Bourke: "In these times, when, under certain regimes in other countries, neighbors inform on neighbors-in fact it is almost their duty to do so-this bill is a sign of the fact that we detest all that form of sneaking." Said Le Touzel: "I'm finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Legal Cads Are Out | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Krupp's reprieve roused wide Allied apprehension. The Paris-Presse saw "all that the French detest in Germany-the Prussian spirit, pan-Germanism, militarism, industrial dumping-" walking abroad again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Reprieve | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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