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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sincerely hoping that none but the Mennonites waste sympathy on a man of such caliber as Larry Gara. In refusing to register during World War II he was but definitely a lawbreaker . . . Let him continue being a martyr and cheerfully spend most of his life as a do-nothing in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Christianity is indivisible. Christianity is not a shallow materialistic concept masquerading as a .life philosophy, as are Leninism and Marxism; Christianity is a dynamic spiritual force that outlives all politics. Christianity is the answer to all ideologies. The only possible hope for peace and order in Europe lies in a federated Europe based on Christian ideals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man from the Wine Country | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...free-enterprising Protestant Free Democrats and the extreme nationalist Deutsche Partei.) From Bonn last week, TIME Correspondent David Richardson cabled: "Neither young nor dynamic, Adenauer is the kind of pre-Nazi politician who did not succumb to National Socialism and who now must lead his country's new life until a new generation, not tainted by Hitler, can rise to power. Adenauer has limitations, but he can at least be counted upon to seek better relations between Germany and the West. He will try to continue the free enterprise that has done so much to speed German recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man from the Wine Country | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...milk and found it rich, Melville turned into "The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries." From Beale's remark that "we cannot fail to be impressed with a truly magnificent idea of the profusion of animal life which must necessarily exist in the ocean's depths," Melville constructed a passage for those who like philosophical meat on their narrative bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the White Whale | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the White Whale | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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