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To Author Mumford, Fascism is an "invention of the weak and neurotic" based on the riot act. "Without the cowardly aid of the more civilized nations of the world, Fascism could neither extend its conquests nor even stabilize its domestic regime."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's for War? | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Sweeping are the indictments against U. S. teachers: 1) they know too little about a) the subjects they teach, b) social conditions, c) children; and 2) they don't like children. Average training of U. S. elementary schoolteachers is less than two years of normal school. Teaching attracts a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No. 1 Problem | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Durrell is a 27-year-old Anglo-Irishman, born in Burma and raised on the border of Tibet, now working as clerk at the Ionian Bank in Corfu. Insofar as it has a story, The Black Book tells of a group of people living in a stuffy English hotel -all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dithyrambic Sex | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Likely to be influential, he found, are: 1) Students who get good marks; 2) individuals with high verbal and mathematical ability; 3) Jews (Protestants were next and Catholics last); 4) individuals who are least selfconscious; 5) radicals; 6) students who are liked by their classmates. Whether an individual is emotional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Influential People | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

By far the best thing in If I Were King is Basil Rathbone's acidulous portrayal of Louis XI as an unstable, peevish, medieval neurotic. The picture generally omits the few known facts of Villon's desperate, dog-eared life in favor of an elaborate fiction wherein he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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