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...classes and church services, and that in his compound there had been no forced labor. But a returned officer, Lieut. Roy Jones of Minneapolis, who was captured early in the war, said that Communist treatment of the prisoners was "unbelievably poor" before the truce talks began, improved later. "I refer in particular to food, housing, clothing and the conditions under which men were forced to travel. It certainly feels wonderful to be a free man again...
...explain free government in any other terms than religious. The Founding Fathers had to refer to the Creator in order to make their revolutionary experiment make sense; it was because 'all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights' that men could dare to be free. They wrote their religious faith into our founding documents, stamped their trust in God on the faces of their coins and currency and put it boldly at the base of our institutions...
...refer, of course, to the problem of the Lubell brothers, who by their defiant refusal to answer questions asked them by a properly constituted legislative investigating committee, and their invocation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution as the basis for that refusal, have proven themselves unfit for admission to the bar of any of our states, and, of course, unfit to continue as student at the Harvard Law School...
...positivist levels. TIME, still in the dark basement with a lot of other theologians, is trying to translate knowledge of the real world into dualistic mumbo jumbo. The most you can accomplish that way is to produce a few pages of high-sounding argument without once having to refer to reality . . . Come on, TIME, dig the culture concept and a little bit of scientific method if you want to play in the intellectual big leagues. You and Reinhold Niebuhr are sticking your heads into the same sandpile and waving your tailfeathers while the world goes...
...judge: "The Puritan mind . . . felt the need to name many girl babies Patience, Prudence, Peace, Faith, Hope, Charity, Tolerance, Preserved and even Chastity. Many names from abroad escape notice only because they must be translated. Thus, we have Semtana, Neugeboren, Trissotin and Malatesta, which, in their respective languages, refer to Messrs. Sour Cream, Newly Born, Three Times Silly and Headache...