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With the advent of Explorer, perhaps aggressive man will find a better planet on which to live. Then surely "the meek shall inherit the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...inherit and share the humane and religious culture of Europe must examine our collective conscience to determine if we are doing our best to meet the grave threat to our free institutions. I believe that we must rid ourselves of certain false habits of thought of which we have all been more or less guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Habits of Thought | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...lawyer's clerk is convinced he's the nephew of the Queen of Fairies, a knight that he will inherit the realm, the clergy that its pockets will be lined--and so on. The characters assume and discard identities with professional skill, and cavort from bedroom to laboratory with Elizabethan vitality...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Alchemist | 11/15/1957 | See Source »

...loss for the whole South-not because Dalton is Dalton or is a Republican but because Harry Byrd, who could have used his vast influence for moderation, has chosen to win his victory by preaching defiant white supremacy. Democrat Almond, in winning the governorship on such terms, will inherit a state of chaos and hatred when the Supreme Court moves against Byrd's system of legal subterfuge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: November Harvest | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...melodramatic heights seldom attain those of Little Orphan Annie. Wallowing Methodically in his Slough of Despond, Sal Mineo-pouting, simpering, and rolling his eyeballs on the rocky road to manhood-is singularly unconvincing as a meek and mild sort of Michelangelo angel who is all set to inherit the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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