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When Ike's words were released, they showed that the Supreme Commander had been transformed in one year from a skeptic about European economic-political unity (at its first mention, he called the European army a "horrible idea") into its most persuasive champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: New Age for an Old Continent | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Saint of the Risorgimento. Born in 1785, the son of wealthy Milanese parents, Manzoni spent his early 20s in Paris, became a political liberal and a skeptic. But back in Italy, he returned to the church he had abandoned, and the rest of his life was a parable of the compatibility of Christianity and freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Italian Novel | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Philosophers & Experts. From Rome, aged Philosopher George Santayana sent over his long-awaited Dominations and Powers. The old skeptic wrote as brilliantly as ever, but the book was a tantalizing rehash of his ideas on liberty and man's fate. His conclusion: "Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." A more optimistic and challenging view could be drawn from LIFE'S Picture History of Western Man; one of the year's bestsellers, it lighted up the whole heritage of the West. In The Conduct of Life, fourth volume of a 20-year tetralogy, Lewis Mumford asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...Skeptic. In Atlanta, Earl Martin, 22, was fined $13 for stealing a comic book entitled Crime Does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...argument. "Fifty years ago, your characteristic atheist...was as clear as you were about what it was he was denying when he said there was no God and what you were asserting when you said there was. Now...the bite of argument is gone: and the atheist or skeptic will say, 'I don't know what you are talking about. You are asking questions that need not be asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Word for Wonder | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

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