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Khrushchev is a drunkard, a braggart, an atheist, a liar and a barbarian. Where is your sense of common decency and morality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Grandpa Jones and Hank Snow are admittedly inferior to Thomas L. Thomas, and "The Drunkard's Song" may not equal the musical and aesthetic excellence of "Auf dem Wasser du singer." Either in spite of this, or because of this, however, hillbilly music remains popular at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hillbilly Music | 11/5/1957 | See Source »

...Proclaims one Hindu manual for wives: "Be her husband deformed, aged, infirm, offensive . . . choleric, debauched, immoral, a drunkard, a gambler, let him frequent places of ill-repute, live in open sin with other women ... a wife should always look upon him as her god . . . remain with her eyes fixed upon him waiting for his orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...historical detective work, the scholars have moved in on the dramatic cast of characters offered in the Habakknk commentary. The leading members of the cast are the already famed Righteous Teacher, a spiritual leader with special inspiration from God, and his persecutor, the Wicked Priest, a sacrilegious, murdering, despoiling drunkard who comes to a bad end. There are probably subsidiary villains, referred to as the Man of the Lie and the Preacher of the Lie (though it is possible that these are additional epithets for the Wicked Priest). In the background is the House of Absalom, a group that betrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Good & Dead. "When local whites criticize the South for racial segregation," asks Rowan, "is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black?" Rowan says he found "almost no citizen who will say directly that he considers the Indian racially inferior, or inherently a loafer or a drunkard." Yet the director of an Indian hospital at White Earth, Minn. told him: "The feeling in some communities is that the only good Indians are dead Indians." In many areas Indians are denied admission to hospitals, refused police protection, turned down when they apply for social-welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Broken Arrow | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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