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...mother of two small boys, I find it hard to distinguish between pity and contempt when I read a statement like Mrs. Elmore's -"I am childless from choice" [TIME, March 10]-pity because she will never know or understand the pride and great happiness that can come only from watching one's own children grow and develop; contempt for her intolerance and ignorance and unsurpassed selfishness...
...church is to bring continuously the knowledge of God into the world and to bring the world to the knowledge of God. As men come to the knowledge of God, and especially as they come to the knowledge of God in communion with one another, they learn to distinguish ever more sharply between God's will and man's will, and they cope, powerfully and dramatically, with history...
...wonder how long it will take before the progressive, scientifically developed peoples of the r world will be able to distinguish between the criminal and the diseased and will treat each group individually. I doubt sincerely if Judge Scott's method of cure -nine months in jail and then five years of probation-will prove very effective...
...Home. Despite their comparatively small numbers, the totalitarian liberals have so poisoned the climate of opinion in America that it is difficult to distinguish between the friends and the foes of the democratic tradition. ... It is ironical that although the Communists have captured central posts in the labor movement, American workers by & large have escaped infection by illusions of Sovietland...
...fell back on a few gas lamps which had never been removed-but now gas pressure was low, because many Londoners turned up the gas for heat. Dickins & Jones's big store was almost empty. It had one dissatisfied customer, who tried hard in the dark to distinguish between silk and linen materials. She muttered: "Drat this! I thought we'd finished with blackouts." In Fortnum & Mason's flower department a girl clerk said crossly: "I wish people wouldn't be so goodhearted about it all ... then maybe something could be done...