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...display of power and pomp, a cavalcade of retainers and richly housed palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes. It is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...placed in an asylum for war-crazed, shell-shocked and insane soldiers." Grosz emerged from the asylum a pale hurricane of rage. He had reason to hate the men who had been on top in Germany, and "among the masses I found scorn, mockery, fear, oppression, falsehood, betrayal, lies and filth-in abundance." In beaten Germany he found an abundance of subjects, drew thousands of dagger-sharp drawings of pig-faced whores, vulpine businessmen, phthisical Army officers with eroding marble jaws, laborers coughing blood, and clerks sobbing on their knees. His graphic "No" to postwar Germany made Grosz a lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Big No, Little Yes | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...constitution gave Japan a pattern for democracy. The Japanese are now faced with the responsibility of making practice fit the pattern. Aged statesman Yukio Ozaki warned that the Japanese moral code-"based on murder and falsehood"-must be radically altered, predicted that three generations would be needed to educate Japanese to the meaning of the new constitution. Said Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, as it prepared to publicize and interpret the constitution's text and meaning: "Only when we have created a state or society in which we can get along perfectly well without knowing a single article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Banzai! | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Henryk Blasczyk, the boy who started the pogrom, admitted that his story was a lie. He had stayed for two days in a Kielce house, where Jew-hating agitators had coached him in the old anti-Semitic falsehood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: That's the Place! | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...anti-working-class intriguer," was already on the presses with its own intriguing explanation of his junket abroad. Humphed the Worker in its most Comradely gobbledygook: "The essence of the Browder trip is that it is one in a line of provocations intended to reinforce the typical reactionary falsehood that the American Communist party has organizational connections abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: The Student | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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