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...voice of his conscience, as was demanded of him by the regime to which he was wholeheartedly devoted, and to which he had sold himself body and soul. Thus he sank from one depth to another, until, in the implementation of the 'final solution,' he reached the nether hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Judgment Day | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...nether world of toys this year succeeds in making monsters more monstrous and expendable than ever before. The Great Garloo (Marx) is a sort of teen-age monster who picks things up and carries things around under remote control. Ideal's Robot Commando will fire rockets by voice command. War toys, too, are more realistic than ever. There are aircraft carriers that catapult planes from their decks, tanks that advance relentlessly until a well-aimed stone hits a vulnerable spot. One Civil War set comes with a firing mortar, exploding bunker and battle sound-effects record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: But Once a Year | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...that rattle windows and dismay tourists are routine works of the gods. But the nearly 3,000 employees of Dentsu Advertising, Ltd. are subject to other tremors and are often heard to groan: "Oh Oni is angry again." Oh Oni-or Big Demon-is no evil spirit from the nether world, but the nickname of Dentsu's autocratic, dynamically modern-minded president, Hideo Yoshida, 57, who almost singlehanded has built Dentsu into the world's fifth largest* advertising agency with yearly billings of $148,500,000. "If I am the big demon." says Yoshida with a smile, "then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The View from Fuji | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser nears the nadir of its nebulous naughtiness, forcing the great powers to consider, with great searching of souls and scratching of navels, the threat, the portentous horror, indeed, the phantasmagorical folly of appeasement, of a Munich, if you please, in the face of great decisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Pedant in the Levant | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...again the G.O.P. was portrayed as the party of the rich, the selfish and of "big business." And once again the Democratic party appeared as that of the little fellow, the workingman and of "the middle class." A reconstructed Republican party has a priceless opportunity today. For between the nether wings of both major parties, there exists a tremendous vacuum, aching to be filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGEMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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