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...that anyone could say in print today could conceivably have any real effect on the outcome of the election. But for those Democrats who still think in terms of '48, it doesn't hurt to say a last word about their candidate, either by way of praise or mere factual interpretation of what Adlai Stevenson stands...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: The Stevenson Team | 11/6/1956 | See Source »

...Real Testimony. Author Caster's lucid and factual introduction to the book takes issue with the contention of Allegro and others that the so-called Teacher of Righteousness was a single historical personage, martyred by "the Wicked Priest," and whose resurrection was awaited. The title, which Gaster prefers to translate "True exponent of the Law," refers, he says, to "a continuing office rather than a particular individual, and . . . the various allusions to him are not in fact to one and the same person." He believes that various documents probably refer to different teachers at different times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Latest on the Scrolls | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...professors and experts on the subjects in question. They draw up lists of possible problems, test them out on guinea-pig students, gradually weed out those that are too easy, too confusing, or irrelevant. But in all its tests, the effort of the E.T.S. is to get beyond mere factual knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Testmakers | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...able to abandon, stagger the average and academic imagination. People cannot readily grasp a science whose track leads from the understanding of neurosis to "Cosmic Orgone Engineering." They become suspicious, get scared off by the magnitude of what confronts them. Yet all of Reich's great findings are factual, demonstrable, irrefutable, as were those of Galileo. How much longer will it be before officials, the press, the public shake off their apathy, accept the largesse of orgonomy, and fight to defend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...Southern Education Reporting Service started a journalistic experiment two years ago to tell all the desegregation news straight down the middle, it was damned by extremists of both sides. But the experiment proved a success: the service's monthly Southern School News has walked the tightrope of factual reporting so skillfully that partisans on opposite sides now look up to it, and an increasing number of Southern newspapers are carrying its stories. A single mail brought subscription renewals from Georgia's Segregationist Herman Talmadge and Desegregationist and Novelist Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith. Last week the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tightrope | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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