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...Washington, before a House Labor subcommittee, broken-nosed Herbert K. Sorrell, whose A.F.L. Conference of Studio Unions has had Hollywood cinemakers in strike ferment for three years, denied over & over that he had ever been a Communist Party member. Shown a C.P. card signed "Herbert Stewart" (Sorrell's mother's name was Stewart), he cried "fake," but admitted that it looked like his handwriting. An expert swore that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Under Raps | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Kracauer divides German film history into three main periods. The first (1918-24) was a period of fierce mental ferment; during those years, the German film attained its highest artistic maturity (Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), and the screen was a battleground for most of the conflicting anxieties and desires of the German mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Nation & Its Movies | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...atheist," he wrote Chekhov, "although I felt it, but now . . . I know that he is indeed an atheist and a confirmed one. Am I right?" Gorky, godless himself, was hardly right, but in many respects he saw Tolstoy plain-his "misty preaching" rising from "the unhealthy ferment of the old Russian blood," the man himself "madly and tormentingly beautiful . . . a man of the whole of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tolstoy Plain | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...them could tell a hawk from a handsaw, most picked Russia (an Aquarian) as the new No. 1 European power. For the U.S. (another Aquarian), they saw the No. 1 Western Hemispheric spot, all mixed up by an annoying wave of accidents, sex poaching, labor strife, inflation and political ferment, caused by the unfortunate fact that Uranus is moving through the sign of Gemini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Will I Succeed? | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...million people-and with them a sense of responsibility which, while often laggard and defective, was nevertheless more genuine than that displayed by any other colonial nation. Socialist Bevin faces the rising tide of Asiatic nationalism; 1946 is likely to see another major crisis in India's ferment. Democrat Bevin faces a Russia which has become the strongest power on both the Asiatic and European continents and which, by pressing on Britain's lifeline in the Mediterranean, threatens to secure an interior position between the homeland and Britain's vital bases in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNO: Great Commoner | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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