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Kenneth ("Tea & Crumpets") Gape [whose elder brother was unwilling to accept an English inheritance, TIME, May 28] appears to share the illusion of many otherwise well-informed Americans that Britons are still taking it on the chin because they have a Socialist government, clearly does not realize that the tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 18, 1951 | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

The Troubled Air makes two points, not new but still good: 1) when loose accusations start flying around, innocent people may be hurt; 2) liberals should not let their passion for freedom blind them to Communism. Unfortunately, Shaw makes these points more as a pamphleteer than a novelist. His book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Clem | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Re TIME'S April 30 Science article, "The Great Event": I have many times read about the inane theory of the expanding universe. It is simply an illusion that may be viewed by anyone driving along a highway . . . when objects . . . seem to be moving in different directions at varying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 21, 1951 | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

The truth of the matter is not that our critics have sensitive palates or have been brought up in an environment that recognizes the importance of the beverage connoisseur, the heavy drinker or the excellent use to which alcohol may be put as an antiseptic; but that they write "reviews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critics Confounded | 5/1/1951 | See Source »

Verdict on Progress. But there is an advantage to viewing Man at a single sitting, if only to see his mistakes bundled so tightly together. "Even in her errors," says Author Sédillot, "the Age of 'Progress' is no innovator. Monetary catastrophes are as old as-money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Capsule History | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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