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Braden ends up, like John Gardner, with unfashionable expressions of hope, quoting the German theologian Jiirgen Moltmann's The Theology of Hope. If the present looks grim, well, maybe−just maybe−there's the future. He settles for the progressive slogan, "Say no to the given and yes to the new." He gambles, as a humanist, that if runaway technology can be slowed down, it will somehow come out evolution rather than revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: America: Going, Going, Gone? | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

Best Reading THE CENTURY OF THE DETECTIVE, by Jiirgen Thorwald. The author of The Century of the Surgeon expertly follows the fascinating history of criminology, illustrating it with a gallery of grisly crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 19, 1965 | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

What do you know about Hitler? Pointing his movie camera into dozens of high school classrooms, Frankfurt TV Reporter Jiirgen Neven-DuMont put his question to scores of German students aged 15 to 17. Telecast last week, their answers displayed a surprising ignorance of Nazi turpitude. In fact, nine out of every ten students either knew nothing at all about Adolf Hitler or thought that he had accomplished more good than harm. Sample replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Forgotten Horror | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...race of two-headed men. 87. Jiirgen Spanuth, Lutheran pastor, who set out from the port of Husum late this summer, claims he found: 1. The Lost Atlantis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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