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...imaginary and the real. This is dealt with at length by John Finch in the same magazine--his second paragraph to be exact. Finally, the third poem deals with reflections and meditations on the impossible possible, in that it imagines the existence of a perfect philosophier poet and how imperfect he would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

...undoubtedly was in a few newspapers. But in the press as a whole no significant news fact-whichever side it helped or hindered -was suppressed, distorted or made up out of the whole cloth. In the test of 1940 the U. S. press had proved that although still humanly imperfect, it was a civilized and democratic institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Test of 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...hollow and meaningless while the country's political and intellectual leaders are driving a wedge of fear into the hearts of the American people. For many loyal Americans fear that under the guise of preparedness they will be catapulted into a futile and devasting foreign war while our own imperfect democracy crashes in ruins about them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO MR. SIGOURNEY | 6/20/1940 | See Source »

Chief cause of gout is imperfect elimination of uric acid, and attacks may be caused by heavy consumption of rich food, malt liquors, or by mental shock. Although 50% of gout is hereditary, overindulgence usually aggravates the underlying weakness. Rare in the whiskey-drinking U. S., gout is most common in aley Britain and beery Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prime Minister's Gout | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...that is still his message in Twilight of Man, published last week.* "Here," says Dr. Hooton, "is more raucous crying in the wilderness. . . . Human behavior has continued to deteriorate." Hooton feels that his is a voice in a wilderness because: 1) men like to think of themselves not as imperfect and unstable animal organisms but as vessels of godlike aspiration and achievement; and 2) no prophet is less heeded by the man-in-the-street than he who foretells disaster some centuries or millennia hence, i.e., long after the man-in-the-street is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Raucous Crying | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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