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Since then, from his church in Berlin, in the monster's jaws, he has fought the new state of Revelation. He has fearlessly protested against Communist harassment of pastors and church youth groups, publicly attacked the spread of "materialist ideology." When the Russians, in the gesture of appeasement, asked him to visit Moscow last September, he accepted only after he made clear that he wanted to discuss 1) freedom of religion in East Germany, and 2) German prisoners of war still in Russian hands. The Red invitation was withdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop in the Front Line | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...easily bridged. Materialist Holmes, with his suppleness, curiosity and gusto, was perennially young; Socialist Laski, with his dogmas and his immense learning, was prematurely old. For the rest, a passion for ideas, a faith in reason (as used by men of intellect), a dim view of organized religion, mutually known books and friends marked the common court on which they played out a tennis match of the mind. In time, they batted everything and everybody over the net, from Aristotle to Hemingway, from dentists to doorknobs, from Communism to the common cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 20-Year Dialogue | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...woman on so large a canvas. She begins her book, in time, with a discussion of Eve in the Garden of Eden and carries right on from there through recorded history to the age of Dr. Kinsey. By the time she has finished her biological, psychoanalytical and historical-materialist dissection of the situation of her sex, the warm aura of mystery that commonly surrounds woman has been reduced to a steely chill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady with a Lance | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...made of hollow rubber. Said Smithers: "It is a sham, but by filling it with sand it can be made into a lethal weapon." Smithers asked for a ban on coshes. "The increase in violence," he said, "is the direct result of six years of Socialist and materialist philosophy in action. All moral standards are cracking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Cat & the Birch | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...having them read vicious attacks on capitalistic society by Marx and Archbishop Sheen. Then, the course takes up four ways man has tried to orient himself to the world: the Catholic way (Brautigum calls this "sacramental orientation"), the Protestant view ("Recognizing individual shortcomings"), the Marxist, and the naturalist-materialist orientation, typical of Westchester County and the American middle class. In his attempt to raise questions in student minds, Brautigum has made his course the cornerstone of the freshman year at Colgate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dollar Lack Bogs Educational Plans | 10/18/1952 | See Source »

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