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Twelfth century Japan was a land of serene beauty. Delicate white temples rose out of quiet lakes, and low, clean houses graced the green countryside. But the serenity was an illusion, for the men who ruled this paradise reigned with violence. Gate of Hell, one of the most beautiful films...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Gate of Hell | 4/20/1955 | See Source »

Moscow announced that a street on a new state farm somewhere out on the Soviet steppes has been named after one of the U.S.S.R.'s best U.S. friends, party-lining Baritone Paul Robeson, who has long cherished an illusion that U.S. Negroes are still slaves but that Soviet slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

On hearing this, Miranda drops dead-and the slaves are suddenly free. Or rather, they have that illusion, for Author Compton-Burnett devotes the rest of Mother & Son to hammering home a vital truth: those who consent to live under tyranny can never be released from it, not even by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Human Bondage | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

We are deeply sympathetic with the concern that the free world not withdraw and acquiesce in the face of Communist show of strength in the Far East. Yet the position implied by Mr. Dulles' threats is highly questionable. Such a moral justification is seriously lacking in the case of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MATSU-QUEMOY DEFENSE NOT MORALLY JUSTIFIED | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Attempts to revoke last year's tax legislation would undoubtedly face bitter floor fights and strong opposition from a large, stockholding section of the population. The politically profitable illusion that Democratic Congressmen can float twenty dollars of prosperity to every man, woman, and child without causing an inflation, would end...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Double-Sawbuck in Every Pocket | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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