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Asked one skeptic: "What would we use to deliver an atomic bomb? A bullock cart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Bomb on a Bullock Cart | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...Your article is the most conclusive proof that the Holy Bible is true history. It should make any skeptic stop and listen when Billy Graham or any preacher begins a statement with "The Bible says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...most of James's contemporaries agreed that Santayana was a fellow who just did not fit in. Born in Spain and brought up in Boston, he was never really at home in Europe or the U.S. At a time when philosophy was robustly assured, Santayana remained a quiet skeptic. Other philosophers wrote a brisk, matter-of-fact style; Santayana wrote a highly poetic one. They were aggressively liberal and believed in the inevitability of progress; Santayana was a hermitlike conservative who yearned for tradition, a settled order, a sense of place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cool World | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...Fistful of Dust. Foremost among the doubters is a longtime moon-race skeptic, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Says Ike: "Anybody who would spend $40 billion in a race to the moon for national prestige is nuts." California's Democratic Representative Chet Holifield has grumbled about "moon madness." The Senate Republican Policy Committee expressed doubts about the value of "a fistful of lunar dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Still Moonward Bound | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...found it all just too exhilarating. It was a compliment to his vast powers of persuasion that Mrs. McLean and the others never took into account his reputation; he could soften any skeptic merely by producing freshly embroidered lies with which he smothered older embroidered lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Liar | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

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