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...Reinhold Niebuhr has called him "the profoundest interpreter of the psychology of the religious life . . . since St. Augustine." The Roman Catholic weekly, Commonweal, has rated him "perhaps the greatest Protestant-Christian of the 19th Century, a man equal in spiritual stature to . . . Cardinal Newman." But to many a college-educated American the strangely beautiful name of Sören Kierkegaard might as well be that of a new movie star or a kind of smorgasbord. Chief reasons: 1) only in the last decade have most of his works been translated from Danish into English†; 2) his ironical, passionate, introverted...
...their readers. It ran cheesecake-but also Charles A. Beard's The Republic, condensed in ten installments. Well aware that not every picture was worth 10,000 words, its editors made room for editorials, closeups, "text pieces" by men of letters (Winston Churchill, John Dos Passos, Reinhold Niebuhr, et al.). Still popularly regarded as a "picture magazine," LIFE now averages up to 20,000 words of text per issue-the wordage of a novelette. It took science out of the moonlit fantasies of the Sunday supplement, made it understandable to millions yet acceptable to scientists, in maps, diagrams, pictures...
...Niebuhr [TIME, Oct. 21] states that Military Government vetoed a provision in the Bavarian constitution calling for a planning commission, "on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy." The proposal was not for a planning commission but for a planned economy within Bavaria. The Germans were told by Military Government that the question of planned economy or free enterprise was for them to decide, but that Bavaria was too small to have a planned economy all by itself regardless of the other parts of Germany. Nothing was said about a planned economy being incompatible with democracy. Since...
...Wells (onetime Bryn Mawr professor of political economy) should know. Dr. Niebuhr, who says that he was aware of this official explanation, nevertheless demurs...
...their decision to remain clear of the UDA., the Liberal union members expressed many and varied reasons for the rejection. The Democratic Action group was founded in 1941 and counts as one of its stalwarts, Reinhold Niebuhr, prominent theologian. The HLU has long been connected with the United States Student Assembly, with which it once more allied Thursday night...