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What visiting West German critics saw were rank upon rank of slavish, posterlike pictures and sculpture dedicated to tested propaganda themes. They bore such titles as World Youth Festivals, To the Patriot Philipp Müller,* The First Furrow for the Collective Farm, and the styles were all obedient, School-of-Moscow realism. There were glorified scenes of farmers and construction workers, kindly Red soldiers surrounded by admiring children, ball-fisted strikers and heroic rioters-all with clear brows, stern eyes and rippling muscles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Red Posters | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...give back to the earth what the earth gave, All to the furrow, nothing to the grave, The candle's out, the spirit's vigil spent; Sight may not follow where the vision went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SANTAYANA'S TESTAMENT | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Like any full-time heavyweight thinker, British Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell juggles many kinds of ideas, some sound, and some mere sound. Sifting them apart has kept his critics in a dither for half a century, and may furrow posterity's brow even longer. The Socialist earl, now 79, has taken all knowledge for his sphere and kicked it around like a soccer ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright-Eyed Rationalism | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...history of the subject, to be prepared by Church Historian James Hastings Nichols, associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago and author of Primer for Protestants. The result, just published as Democracy and the Churches (Westminster Press; $4.50), turns over many a fertile furrow for both churchman and statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity & Democracy | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Devastating Shoestring. The Air Forces' General Hoyt Vandenberg used his time chiefly to lobby for more airplanes. In his enthusiasm, he scooted in & out of a series of contradictions without so much as a furrow on his handsome, unlined face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Military Rests | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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