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...kind of cultivated escapism for the individual who masters the drill, Buddhism has been dismissed by some Westerners as Freudianism in reverse: a systematic elimination of the ego so that anxiety has no place to roost. Originally, Buddhism was an otherworldly path leading each man deeper into himself???and certainly not into the political arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Buddha on the Barricades | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...Madness. Salan and his men intend to keep Algeria French, and threaten a bloody uprising either before or after peace is concluded. To succeed in the long run, Salan must not only crush the powerful Moslem F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) but also bring down De Gaulle himself???tasks that seem far beyond his powers, particularly since his S.A.O. has not won any sizable support in Metropolitan France. But, even in failing, Salan can seriously endanger France by releasing mutiny in the embittered French army in Algeria, which would conceivably spread to barracks in Metropolitan France and trigger civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Not So Secret Army | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...days later Mr. Cotton was reconfirmed to his post which ranks second only to that of Statesman Stimson himself???but this time, in the more usual closed executive session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: First Fruit | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself???and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences do not reflect any more coolly during this picture than they did when the play was a stage hit 19 years ago. Lionel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Quite as gruesome a joke was nearly played on the poet himself???at his birth ie was tossed aside as dead, till the midwife exclaimed to the surgeon: "Dead! Stop a minute: he's alive enough, sure!" Live enough to play the infant Hercules, with the difference that the large snake found one day in his cradle was curled up on the child's chest, comfortably asleep like himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alive Enough | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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