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...driving asks to be taken off the usual showplace rounds. They spend part of the day at the shack of a Negro who has made his own daughter pregnant, wind up at a ginmill brothel where the white millionaire learns some facts of Negro life that shake his do-goodism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & Blue | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...society. It consists of non-Communist and even anti-Communist liberals, mostly middle and upper class business and professional people. . .the same strata in which Benedict Arnold moved so freely during the American Revolution." In the February 12 issue, one writer defines liberalism as "a potpourri of indiscriminant do-goodism trending into statism and blending indistinguishably into treason." In a later issue an article titled "The Red Mole" states that there is no non-Communist Left, "just a Left with Socialists, Communists, Liberals, Humanitarians, and Idealists. . . all mixed together...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 3/9/1951 | See Source »

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