Word: reade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered Columbia Law School, but decided after five months that the law was not for him. Before coming to TIME, he wrote reports for the Rand Corp. and Republic Aviation, read unsolicited fiction for The New Yorker...
Have just read your impressive write-up on MGM's great epic Ben-Hur [Nov. 30], but could not help wondering why no mention was made of Miss Haya Harareet, Israel's talented up-and-coming star, who has made her first appearance in a U.S.-made film as Esther in that movie...
...have read the article "Loafing on the Railroad," which appeared in the Nov. 23 issue, and having done so wanted to express my feelings with respect to this fine piece of writing...
...helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge. On the stern he read the rusty legend...
...transcendence." They are "organizations of human thought" for coping with the difficult world, serving as a refuge from loneliness or an "umbrella of divine authority" against the responsibility of personal decisions. But "religion is not necessarily a good thing. It was not a good thing when the Hindu I read about this spring killed his son as a religious sacrifice. It is not a good thing that religious pressure has made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee, because it conflicts with fundamentalist beliefs...