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...Russian chauvinism" that he saw crushing the rights of national minorities. In his testament, which has never been published in Russia, he wrote that Stalin "concentrated boundless power in his hands, and I am not certain he can always use this power with sufficient caution." In a final postscript to his will, he vainly pleaded that Stalin be removed as general secretary of the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: LENIN: COMMUNISM'S CHARTER MYTH | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

Obliging Windmill. Director Franklin Schaffner's previous epic was Planet of the Apes. Patton sometimes seems a postscript, with wide-ranging battle scenes of tanks and air strikes that once again ravage the planet. The script presents Patton as a distorted Quixote, espousing an ancient creed: Hate thine enemy, and never let the home team down. In the end, what truly overtakes Patton is Patton. In a field hospital, the general strikes a battle-fatigued G.I. The shock waves of the slap reverberate back to America, where Congressmen shrill for the general's command. Patton is relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Blood and Guts | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...like every good jiver, he also has a deep streak of charm, and so does Author Brown. Taking the reader into his confidence in an extraordinary postscript, Brown suggests that the whole book is a jiver's joke. George may be a caricature of the white man's mythical black, the hustling swordsman who alone can bring true satiety to a woman. On the other hand, Brown addresses George in the postscript, too, saying: "You think that your acts have been lies, but you need to realize that your creator is not some white man, but a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Blindness Best? | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...dereliction of its duty to the American people-although not in the sense meant by Agnew. Among its conclusions: broadcasting is far behind print in investigative reporting, "documentary programming hit a new low" and reporting of the 1968 election campaign did not adequately inform the electorate. In a personal postscript. Sir William Haley kissed off much of U.S. news coverage as "meretricious, superficial and spotty." The survey hammered at what it called "the real cause of the crisis in broadcasting": broadcasters' obsession with private profit rather than public service. "A theologian would call it greed," the jury dryly observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AGNEW DEMANDS EQUAL TIME | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...postscript to a study published two years ago, a Harvard sociologist says that from "5 to 20 per cent of the [American] black population (from 1 to 4 million people) hold attitudes indicating a depth of estrangement and bitterness unique in American history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marx Says Bitterness Rising Among Blacks | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

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