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...discern in the past a succession of levels of social awareness, like an ascending staircase. The age of religious wars ended when secular politics began to dominate . . . feudal politics ended when economic factors assumed overriding importance; the struggles of economic man will end by the emergence of the new ethical values of the new age . . . the new movement will re-establish the disturbed balance between rational and spiritual values...
Such a German government would then be ready to be a worthy member for full participation on equal and dignified terms in that "Council of Europe" which Mr. Winston Churchill seemed to discern as he "peered through the mists of the future" on the evening of Sunday March...
Such a German government would then be ready to be a worthy member for full participation on equal and dignified terms in that "Council of Europe" which Mr. Winston Churchill seemed to discern as he "peered through the mists of the future": on the evening of Sunday March...
...Germans should have shown themselves ready to run the risk and pay the price required of them by their struggle to hold the Tunisian tip. While I have always hesitated to say anything which might afterwards look like overconfidence, I cannot resist the remark that one seems to discern in this policy the touch of a master hand, the same master hand that planned the attack on Stalingrad...
...properly be described as The Sound of an American. World-Telegram Reviewer Harry Hansen said that the book "pounds home that you can't write a decent novel when you are trying to outdo your competitors in vulgarity. The only sound of an American that I could discern . . . was the razzberry...