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...worlds. One is the world of Caesar: petty officials, petty sycophants, sentimental housewives, craven husbands, tame-cat priests, small landowners who "would boil the Sacred Ribs of Jesus in the tears of Our Lady of Sorrows if they could make a broth of them"-in short, the dull, timid, heartless, ambitious mass of whom, in Silone's opinion, life is chiefly made. The other is the world of God: the only world in which fearlessness and friendship are possible, and almost nothing else is. In Silone's cosmography there is also a limbo, the sea-bottom world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bomb or Pearl? | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...less since a Federal jury found sleek, Italian-born Carlo M. Flumiani guilty on 12 charges of mail fraud last fortnight. This week Judge Simon H. Rifking sentenced him to 18 months in jail, a $2,500 fine. But nobody will miss Fortuny, Inc., or Publisher Flumiani. A particularly heartless and lucrative operator in what is known to the book trade as "vanity publishing," Publisher Flumiani was convicted of mulcting, since 1935, several thousand gullible authors of around $500.000 by making them pay for the publication of their books-mostly tripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Rotolactor | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...completely conceived was the stage play that its leading character, heartless, ambitious Regina Giddens, is played by Tragedian Bette Davis with scarcely an accent's difference from gruff Tallulah Bankhead's interpretation of the original Broadway role. This was not Miss Davis' idea. She quarreled with gap-toothed Director William Wyler (Jezebel, Dead End) for her own version. He-or the play-won. Result: the films' foremost dramatic actress not only acts like Tallulah but looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...John Cudahy is not to be confused with the standard-variety of Republican isolationists and Roosevelt-baiters. First, because he roundly denounces the Nazis. Said he last week: the Hitler regime is "the most heartless imperialism since man emerged from the slime of barbarism." Second, John Cudahy is not just for sitting back and doing nothing. Last week he called upon the President to propose "an American program of peace" based on "an international government with power to enforce the solution of this and all the endless wars in Europe." Back of such a proposal John Cudahy is prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peace by Force? | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...southern arrogancy clique. We are all of us aware of the ignorance of the poverty-stricken, but it differs very little from the ignorance of the vast majority of those who are able to pay the tax. How can this letter have been more than a wicked, heartless gibe at the poll-taxers. Hucy Long, who Mr. Davis says, is the arch type of political mongrel wafted to power by the illiterate and pitiable, was so wafted originally by persons paying such taxes. Next door to the bayou state, the great state of Texas whose elections have not seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

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