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Mexico City's conservative newspaper Excelsior ran a daily polemic against the Big Three, topped off by an anonymous psychiatrist who diagnosed Rivera and Sequeiros, in all the polysyllabic gobbledygook of psychiatric lingo, as absolutely nuts. Rivera, he declared, was a paranoiac operating on a 120-150 day cycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painters' Politics | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Less successful in the theater than his younger brother Jerome (My Sister Eileen, Junior Miss), stocky, swart, 39-year-old Edward Chodorov has been more adventurous. Besides landing solidly with his psychological thriller, Kind Lady, he wobbled about in farce (Wonder Boy) and a romance (Those Endearing Young Charms) before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

Stop Willkie. The men who would stop Willkie agreed on everything except the man who could stop Willkie. On the smear level, ex-Akron Mayor C. Nelson Sparks published a bitter polemic asserting that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: To the People | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Kate L. Mitchell, with facts at her fingertips and her heart on her sleeve, has compressed India into 289 pages of polemic research and a seven-page, let's-do-something-about-it epilogue. She has no warm appreciation of the vagaries of the Hindu caste system, no piercing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Have & To Hold | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

It is probable that a book modestly entitled Lettre aux Anglais (Letter to the English), of which the second French edition has just been published in Rio de Janeiro (it is not yet available in English), contains the first grand polemic produced by a Christian writer in World War II...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heroic Christianity | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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