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The danger was that the monolithic Communist façade would be taken for the Communist reality. Everybody knows the strains and weaknesses of France, the indecisions and diversions in Washington: everybody hears of injustice in a county seat. But who was falsely accused last week in Omsk (pop. 281...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Myth of the Monolith | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

When the entire clan is gathered, Mr. Hobbs continues such chores as garbage disposal, and evenings finds it impossible to concentrate on a book against theoretical talk that outrages his practical intelligence. "Dollars are only symbols," he hears. "Wealth is the natural resources of a country. . ." Running a finger under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father's Return | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Why do the French fight? Because they are doing a job for the free world? Perhaps-but this is not the dominant factor. Duty? For the mercenaries and for those who carry on without expectation of victory, yes. But the answer one hears most is pride. It hardly seems enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INDO-CHINA A War of Gallantry & Despair | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

In the next few days the ashen-faced gaffeur, scarcely eating or sleeping, blunders through a dream world that is Novelist Malaquais' vision of hell. The City sees all, hears all; it exacts silence from its citizens and demands that they draw up reports about each other. Pierre'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Nightmare | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

One night when he is sick in the infirmary, he listens at the bathroom wall with Sam Petrie and hears the buxom nurse and the school hero making love in the next room. Sam swears Anthony to secrecy, then blackmails the nurse and steals morphine, which he sells in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Good & Evil | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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