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No Crutch for Kids. The Schaeffers' guests spend most of their weekends in discussion sessions led by Francis Schaef fer in the chalet's big living room (where he also conducts a brief Sunday morning service), with a hike for exercise. The talk may begin with any subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mission to Intellectuals | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

Overnight, Poland's Communist dialectic became dietetic. "Many doctors recommend eating horseflesh," said Radio Warsaw, "since it has great curative powers. It helps relieve pains of older people. The meat, though sweet, tastes not unlike beef." Other broadcasts warned of the dangers of cholesterol in beef. Warsaw's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Glories of Horse Meat | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Setting forth phases to suggest the "awkward discontinuity" in human drives, Sittler said that within Possession--"the fire of nature and the creator of culture"--there operates a dialectic called Immolation. As C. S. Lewis writes, "To attend to your own love or fear is to cease attending to the...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Sittler Calls Pathos, Not Tragedy, 'Motif of Our Self-Consciousness' | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

Naturally, the American singer is sophisticated enough to realize that love involves submission; and he struggles with the question of whether this submission involves a higher freedom or mere restrictions. The late Big Bopper caught this metaphysical problem and reduced it to concrete terms. His lyric wrestles with the problem...

Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

In France itself, where the republican tradition is particularly strong in the southwest, the Gaullist campaign is largely in the hands of tough Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who has launched a series of radio, TV and newsreel presentations to explain the proposed constitution. To ensure that his message does not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Selling the Constitution | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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