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"There is a dangerous tendency to imagine that faith in a free society means that it will accomplish everything that is needful without effort or direction. Or at most, incantation is all that is required."

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Goldwater Sees Conservative Consensus, Bowles Liberal 'Breakthrough' in 1960 | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

Style, style is the one thing needful for Earnest, and the Rep's actors can provide it only intermittently. In this most artificial of comedies the actors must look and sound as if they lived in the world of the play, not as if they were assuming certain mannerisms as...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Importance of Being Earnest | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

McGill ended his first pronouncement against the bombers with these words: "For a long time now it has been needful for all Americans to stand up and be counted on the side of law, and the due process of law--even when to do so goes against personal beliefs and...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Hole in the Armor | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Last week, on the 221st anniversary of Wesley's Christ Church sermon and the 250th anniversary of the year of his birth, some 50 Methodist and Episcopal clergymen marched into the Old North Church to the chimed tunes of Wesley's hymns (two of the best-known: Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Other Wesley | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

The ultimate consequences of his action could only be assessed in the future. But the effect upon European political and military alignments was already stupendous. He had actually lowered, by some 80 divisions, the combat potential of the world's most menacing army by showing that its colonial conscripts could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Freedom's Choice | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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