Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your profile of Princess Margaret [TIME, June 13] read like a [movie] scenario . . . For the first time in many years of reading TIME, I suspect the veracity of your researchers. How in the world could you dig up such material on a royal personage...
Surely, such a miscarriage of justice as occurred in the courtroom at Plymouth could not happen in America. Daily we read of such events in Communist countries where [murderers] go scot free because of their warped legal system...
From church pulpits throughout Czechoslovakia, Roman Catholic priests last Sunday read a defiant, 4,000-word pastoral letter, delivered to them by couriers sent out from a secret meeting of the country's bishops. They read it despite nocturnal visits from the police, despite the warning of Communist Premier Zapotocky that further "antistate" activity would be met with arrests and trials. They were fortified with the words of their archbishop, Josef Beran, who remained in his Prague palace surrounded by armed plainclothesmen. "Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated by threats," he had written. "In these difficult times...
...Oxford, taught in Germany, was drafted into the German army in World War I, was captured by the Russians, escaped to edit a newspaper in Peking, finally got to Michigan in 1929. Through 20 years' teaching Professor Price never got over the wonders of Shakespeare, could hardly read a line without striding about the classroom and thundering at his students: "It's beautiful...
Government by Discussion. They also provided the new Congregationalist International with a discerning statement of principles. "Our churchmanship," it read, "is inconsistent not only with any form of state totalitarianism but also government by the massman or the mere power of majorities. The rights of man as the child of God and the rights of minorities must be respected...