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...spring) came naturally: like many primitive peoples, they had observed a springtime period of self-denial to encourage germination of their new-sown crops. Church fathers readily admitted that Lent was in part an adaptation from pagan "natural religion." Then, as now, they also thought it not unfitting to remind Christians that Lenten self-denial is a good spring tonic for body as well as soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Penitential Season | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...this story of thugs and trulls, enough sin and mayhem occurs (or is about to) on every page to remind U.S. readers of James M. Cain. The complete, animal innocence of its hero-a sort of Id with pants down-is funny, scary, and fascinating. But the sailor is not going to like the two missing chapters. After raising the promise of Cain for the first 207 pages, Author Butler subsides into a tea-and-marmalade finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Missing Chapter | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Another book on the War between the States has appeared, to remind Americans that their greatest war is still the one fought in America between Americans. The Beleaguered City is a sometimes lively, sometimes somber, always exciting description of the Confederate capital during its four-year ordeal as the symbol of victory to both North and South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grim Reminder | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Recent reports indicate that a number of murders have taken place, of which in some instances prominent members of political parties have been the victims. ... It is regrettable that the Polish Security Police appear to have been implicated. ..." U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane was ordered to remind the Warsaw Government that "freedom and security . . . are essential to the successful holding of free elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Peasant & the Tommy Gun | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Webster is one of the few journalists of his troubled time who has managed consistently to remind people of the news that they are human beings, and that that news is not as bad as it is generally made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Average Man | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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