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...Karl Barth come out so boldly against the Nazis in the '30s and after? His answer: "Naziism . . . was a mixture of madness and crime in which there was no trace of reason." Barth seems to think that Communism is different, and, like other European neutralists, he is fond of the old balancing act equating Russian Communist "materialism" with U.S. capitalist "materialism." The evils of Communist living, furthermore, are all too apparent to Barth from where he sits in Western Europe. Only "a few Western European Communists," he says, would seriously consider the Soviet way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theologian Upstream | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Senator McCarthy has always been fond of the word "whitewash." When the Tydings Committee showed there was no basis for his charge that there were 205 Communists in the State Department, he dismissed the whole thing as a deliberate whitewash. But now, it seems that Roy Cohn and the Senator himself will get the same treatment from their own committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Devil's Advocate" | 4/2/1954 | See Source »

...statement approved by faculty sponsor William S. Verplanck, assistant professor, of Psychology, the Society's four officers said the meeting will be held "with the fond hopes that the Society can be put on its feet and a useful program of activities arranged for the members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defunct Psychology Club to Make New Attempt to Organize in May | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Belgium's Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique, one of the sponsors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deepest Divers | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Michel, a young French archeologist, is about to leave for North Africa, a young girl with whom he has grown up confesses her love. Fond of her and desperately hoping, he marries Marcelline; but North Africa, where homosexuality is rife, quickly complicates rather than resolves their problem. Michel succumbs, while the anguished, wholly disillusioned and half-deserted Marcelline takes to drink. Finding she is pregnant, she leaves Michel and goes back to France. He follows her there, and partly because of their coming child, partly because they are both so lost, they decide to remain together, clutching wildly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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