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Frightful Shadow. In spite of his lifelong preoccupation with moral struggle and theological terms, Gide has said that he is an atheist and expects to die as one. He has also said: "I am neither a Protestant nor a Catholic; I am simply a Christian." Like other devout atheists, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Immoral Moralist | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

That modern art is a frightful thing is an opinion which many a layman shares-and some artists. William Robinson Leigh is one of them. The trouble began, he thinks, with the Algerian wars (1830-47), which made absinthe a French fashion. Artist Leigh, 81, is not the absinthe type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter on Horseback | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Berlin Express (RKO Radio), which RKO shot mostly in Germany, is really two movies-one in the background, the other in the foreground. The background is an album of postwar Germany: a series of malignantly beautiful photographs of rubbled cities, taken with a depth of focus that clarifies the fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Doctors have no prescription that will prevent somebody from dropping an atom bomb. But they continue to worry about what medicine can do to make atomic bombing less frightful for the victims. Last fortnight, at the Navy's invitation, all kinds of doctors (civilian, Army, Navy and the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti-Radiation | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Most economists were, like him, deeply silent or deeply disagreeing with one another over just what was happening. But the nation's farmers-the people most immediately affected-thought they knew the score. They were sure that their golden era of super-high prices was over, but they did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Just Wounded | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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