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...constructor, and he spent decades trying to win it. The current exhibition of his paintings at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery shows that his very genius-his gifts of invention and humor-barred him from be coming an artist of serious value. Over the years, Ray adopted whatever ism was the going one at the time, adding to each a fast-growing repertory of stock techniques: the placement of the curious (whether an object, texture or color) next to the ordinary, the abrupt disordering of space, an almost mannerist play of light. He jumped like a child at hopscotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandada | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

Ultimately, of course, the violence of the Reich (its anti-semitism, its insane Odin-ism, its rigidly-controlled economic life are all "violent" in this sense) found its foreign policy equivalent in a war against the whole world. But Taylor rightly treats the period prior to 1939 in terms appropriate to diplomatic history...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Taylor Assesses the Blame in a Novel Fashion | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

These are only a few of the manifestations of a U.S. phenomenon: the resurgence of ultraconservative antiCommunism. Hundreds of groups and subgroups-with such names as Project Alert, Americans for Constitutional Action, Survival U.S.A. and Crusade for American ism-have popped up across the U.S., in some cases springing from nothing to several thousand members almost overnight. More than 100 anti-Communist study groups are being conducted in Dallas alone. Because their membership is sometimes secret and usually heavily interchangeable with other groups, no sure estimate of their strength is possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: The Ultras | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...McCann was finally reunited with her husband in the Tientsin Red Cross hospital. For ten days she stayed on, drafting appeals for his release. Finally she was informed that the High People's Court of Hopeh province had granted her request "in the spirit of humanitarian-ism." The Air Force made a plane available to fly McCann back to the U.S. But doctors told his wife that he was dying of lung cancer, gave the old China hand only "a few months" to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: In Humanitarian Spirit | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...terrorists in the cities, Moslem city dwellers have practiced attentisme, a zombielike acceptance of every indignity just to stay alive. The advocates of a French Algeria argued that the casbah really wanted association with France but was intimidated into silence for fear of the F.L.N. Attentisme (wait-and-see-ism) virtually disappeared last week in the explosive espousal of the F.L.N. The extremist Front de l'Algérie Française had claimed the support of 500,000 Moslems-if they ever existed, they have now vanished into thin air. The wife of extremist General Jacques Massu operated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Voice Out of Silence | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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