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This good little French film has a sentimentality that is too obvious to overlook. But Director Jacques Becker (It Happened at the Inn) has given it such virtues as a gently perceptive camera, unobtrusive realism, and, above all, genuine pathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Please don't overlook mentioning the culprit's name and biography, if & when he is uncovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...tongued Cultural Anthropologist Margaret Mead. By using the word "outlet" for sex activity, Kinsey upheld the Puritan tradition that the body should not be used for pleasure. Said Dr. Mead: he "confused sex with excretion." He missed completely the emotional, spiritual and ethical sides of sex, and seemed to overlook society's need for a sex pattern. Patterns, Dr. Mead said, are necessary, and are found in every society "apparently to reward men for staying home at night, which doesn't seem to be biologically necessary." There is a danger that people may regard Kinsey as a sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Behavior, After Kinsey | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...time when international relations once again smack hellishly of war, and when the field of dynamic political leaders is so sparse, ought we to overlook any presidential candidate on the grounds of small, personal prejudice? Shouldn't we instead study the factual achievements of his case history? If MacArthur pats himself on the back, who knows, we may find he has a right to. It doesn't harm us much, and certainly a timid man won't get far with Russia. Forrest Powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queries on Veteran Groups, Loyalty Checks | 3/18/1948 | See Source »

Several critics have already compared That Winter to Dos Passos as well as to Hemingway, which is to overlook the fact that, above all else, these authors were originals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Unhappy Men | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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