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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pure Spirit. Trappist Wiesinger's closely reasoned, footnote-fortified volume is a serious study of apparitions, demons, second sight, telepathy, witches, mediums, magic, radiaesthesia (divining), crystal gazing, hypnosis and diabolical possession. It is built upon a thesis which the author has constructed out of Thomist theology (the book carries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ghost Stories | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

McMaster: That's a good maxim for all walks of life, a good way of running the world: freedom of individual interpretation accompanied by universal cooperation . . . This is progress: learning by past experiences and applying the knowledge toward a fuller life ... a greater tolerance for others who may arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theology & Jazz | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Your masterly Aug. 1 article on Goya is another timely blow in your Art department's strategic defense of the traditional values of humanistic art against the idiocies of anti-moralistic modernism. Especially in two phrases do you capture the crisis of ethics in modern art today in all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

In Paris to sop up background about great poets of the past, Poet-Anthologist Louis Untermeyer was in a gloomy mood about the prospects for U.S. poets of the present. "There are only one or two poets, Robert Frost and possibly Ogden Nash, who are making a living out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

As I read your March 14 account of the Rev. Listen Pope's attack on the modern mediums of peddling mass religion, I could imagine the looks of shocked indignation that passed over the pious and well-meaning faces of the Broadcasting and Films Commission of the National Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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