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...American-style snack bar. Georges Marcovich, the café's Manager of External Relations, i.e., pressagent, explained: "We want to attract the salaried American vacationer who gets tired of five-course meals at high prices and wants some ham and eggs [price: 65?]. We have tried to democratize ourself and yet remain the perfect gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Democratic Revolution | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...Peale: "There is a very peculiar characteristic in human nature, and that is our inability to forgive ourselves. We do wrong, we ask God to forgive us, and God does forgive us. But it is far more difficult to get ourself to forgive ourself . . . A normal, strong, well-adjusted mind will . . . say, 'God has forgiven me, I have done everything I can to make this matter right, it's in the past, it's washed out, it's all over and done . . .' I sometimes think it was a very wise procedure in the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Questions & Answers | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Force Chief of Staff, could see an air-power crisis closing on the U.S. at jet speed, while the U.S. was buzzing along in a B-29 frame of mind. "We are tempted to retreat from one fading hope to another," said Vandenberg two years ago, "without subjecting ourself to the discipline of facts." In 1952, the facts demanded an even more rigorous discipline. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Warning Siren | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...presence of the garrison denies the question. . . of governing ourself; if the political situation remains in its present fatal state Germany will never units as a country and a democracy." He says that most Germans lost their sense of justice under Hitler, although there are some who "have not lost its faith." But these, he claims, are lost in the mass of disillusioned Germans. "And the worst thing in the world is the mass. There blooms the despotism...

Author: By Paul. W. Mandel, | Title: German Letters Gripe to Students about War Trials, Russians, Government, Music | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...happened that, flanked by a naval onsign on our right and an army lieutenant on our left, we found ourself vis-a-vis the Soviet banner, rendering homage. With the hammer and sickle firmly entrenched in the Stork Club, we thought, the brotherhood of man cannot be very...

Author: By F. CONRAD Buchwald, | Title: NEW YORK REACTS PECULIARLY TO WAR | 2/26/1942 | See Source »

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