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...Luke, John, Peter and Paul, and etch their images on the chalice. These holy men wear their hair and their platitudes long. Together with Author Costain's lumbering, pseudo-Biblical style, they reduce the pace of The Silver Chalice to the gait of a lame camel. Occasionally, the inferior doings are spiced up with superior settings, e.g., Nero's sycophantic court, a gladiatorial breakfast, Jerusalem's Dock of Atonement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Wrestle with the Grail | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...article in Pravda. "Cannibalistic American imperialism," wrote he, has a master plan in the works for eliminating 700 million people in Europe and Asia with a calculated program of war, starvation and disease.* The Americans now consider themselves a "master race," with a mission to rid the world of "inferior" people. "Let all people of good will in all countries of the world know these facts," wrote Aleksandrov. "Let them remember that in the person of the American imperialists and their supporters there are the bloodiest beasts, the worst enemies of humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Report from Moscow | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...organized mass. He tries to explain their psychology in the light of German traditions. First, Dr. Cohen makes a distinction between SS men who committed common acts of cruelty and those who had the job of gassing Jews. "The latter," he says, "were educated to believe that jews were inferior people, guilty of Germany's defeat in the First World War. The German superego (the interaction of parents, educators, laws of the country, rules of society) accepted these ideas . . . German education taught that you have to obey every order from those above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One Who Survived | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...professors' and students' views of Harvard teaching, which roams through the faculty pictures, and a not-so-interesting section compiled from results of a poll of students. This section consists of a series of islands of type amid a sea of ads and generally irrelevant drawings. It is definitely inferior to the similar section in last year's book, which was better integrated in every...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: 316 | 5/21/1952 | See Source »

Logic a la Conant: the Amalgamated Association of Dairymen and Pharmacists is deeply concerned with the rising undemocratic practice of breast feeding. Whereas it is admitted that in most cases the standard formula product is somewhat inferior to the natural milk, still the practice is considered highly detrimental to the unity of our society, even though those guilty are still assessed their pro rata share of the general tax on lactic feeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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