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Iraq is more important than ten Berlins, but the U.S. continues to study Berlin and act as if Khrushchev's "deadline" is something like a bureaucrat's lunch hour and must be taken seriously. Berlin is the deliberate decoy set up by the Communists to distract the U.S. from Iraq. Wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...pilgrimage of life goes on, other temptations crop up to distract and subvert the voyager. The temptations of the desert become, in America, the allurements of society...

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

...admitting he had contacts with the Nazis. Gilbert hinted that, actually, he had also been working for another British cloak-and-dagger outfit and that the "radio game" was continued even when London knew the Germans were running it, because it was important to "keep the Germans occupied, to distract their attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Painful Memories | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Much of the other material is covered in flashbacks, which, although often skillfully executed, greatly distract from the play's effect and continuity. The Disenchanted would be a much better play if most, if not all, of these flashbacks were eliminated. For most literate spectators, it is not necessary to review the spirit of the Twenties or the life of Fitzgerald. For most, that decade and its Fitzgerald and Zelda evoke more images and emotions than the flashback could ever portray...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: The Disenchanted | 11/5/1958 | See Source »

...show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. [We must] get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Decadence & Escapism | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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