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...AMERICAN CENTURY That's what TIME's founder Henry Luce called it in a 1941 essay. He was using the phrase to exhort his compatriots to prepare for war, to engage in the struggle for freedom. They did, yet again. And they won. Some countries base their foreign policy on realism or its Prussian-accented cousin, realpolitik: a cold and careful calculation of strategic interests. America is unique in that it is equally motivated by idealism. Whether it is the fight against fascism or communism, or even misconceived interventions like Vietnam, America's mission is to further not only...
...term floater to designate a sort of utility infielder who moved from section to section as a replacement writer. The magazine was still rigidly divided into such sections as Education or Sport or Press--a method of organizing the week's news that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce had invented roughly 40 years before. In the jacket copy of my novel, I'd acknowledged that I was the newsmagazine floater referred to as having tried "to escape an overlong stay in the Religion section by writing 'alleged' in front of any historically questionable religious event...
...Henry Luce was a proponent of the great man theory of history, a belief that individuals, more than the collective forces of society, determine the course of human events. Luce's philosophy manifested itself most clearly on TIME's cover, with its hallmark portraits of people in the news. Over the years TIME has commissioned more and more distinguished artists of the day to portray its cover subjects. The practice has yielded a unique collection of more than 1,800 pieces in a dazzling range of styles and media. Appropriately for this anniversary, 75 of them will go on display...
...Luce's face was white. "Have you any idea what you've done? A basic tradition destroyed...everything I've built...in one gesture...
...Spilt milk," Luce said. "Let's not discuss...