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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sound Risk. We and those nations with whom we have relations must deal in realities in terms of human freedom. In exchange for our help the military and political pressures which now cause fear and worry as to the future must be removed. Once political and military conditions are stable, much of Europe can again become a sound economic risk. If positive steps are not taken, we shall go from tensions to hatred to civil war and finally to world catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: QUID PRO QUO | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...York Sun's Critic Henry McBride-a longtime Miro enthusiast-last week said that Miro now "occupies the position of favorite with those-connoisseurs who insist that they really are connoisseurs." But, he conceded, "those somewhat stuffy people who do not respond to abstract art will fear that the connoisseurs are trying to put something over on them, and they will resent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between the Eyes | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...fear that the new program would be hindered by a preponderance of vague generalities was not borne out by the survey, McNulty said. Lectures were clear and offered a good basis for note-taking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Hail Gen. Ed. After One Year Test | 5/24/1947 | See Source »

...bank. He turns literary prostitute, and starts writing "poisoned pap" that sells well. He even, like Author Caldwell, writes a novel ("with Sex aplenty") about "international bankers" who "cunningly and sedulously plotted wars for their own profit. This was what the American people wanted ... a scapegoat for their fear. . . . Sound and fury, rage and excess, anger and despair, defeated dreams, filled every page of the novel [and] Frank was sometimes faintly embarrassed by the wealth of adjectives. . . ." This is an embarrassment that Author Caldwell never seems to feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the People Want | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Complacent & Patronizing. For a mind whose consequences have been so monstrous, this biography is singularly debonair. It is certainly the most readable life of Marx available. For those who wish to see so alarming a monster debunked, it is a complacent job of debunking. Nor need readers fear exposure to the rigors of Marxist political theory or economics. Biographer Schwarzschild lightly writes off those arid involutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marx Debunked | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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