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He was a humble servant of the forces of history and for all the imperfection of the human material he had to wok with, for all the disappointments of the last years, the struggle to build a new society, a new world, would go on after he was gone.

Author: By Beth Edelmann, | Title: The Party, Without Pain | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

Professor P. H. Phenix has correctly observed that again, amid unparalleled success, man has failed to equal the ideal. However, his ideas are somewhat less than "profound," more they are the "re-found" ideas of Plato's Republic. Like Plato, Professor Phenix slips into the habit of assuming that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1962 | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

You leave me no choice but to point out that Hindus find the Biblical concept of God as a vengeful, peeking, bumbling fellow who botched his job so badly that he created man imperfect, then cursed the whole race of man for the same imperfection, and could find no better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1960 | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

"Everyone,"' says Author Jehnson of Kelly's world, "was well fed and happy. Old people were dignified and respected. Women were courted with grace and courtesy. Men dealt with each other on equal terms, and small white and Negro boys swam together in the streams in naked freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Perpetual Blue | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

From her first day in the convent, Sister Luke (Audrey Hepburn) finds it harder than her sisters do to give up the natural for the spiritual life. Of her three vows-poverty, chastity, obedience-she can keep two without much difficulty, but the third is her undoing. She cannot manage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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