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...Will the Pope's words of peace have any more impact than those he has littered in Rome during the past two years?" No! Nothing the Pope utters will have any impact as long as he refuses to expiate his church's complicity in the slaughter of Jews and other "accursed" people during the almost two millennia of the church's existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 1, 1965 | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...WORD SURGERY, the process of creating words by eliminating letters from longer words, is epitomized in one surprising sentence: "Show this bold Prussian that praises slaughter, slaughter brings rout." Now eliminate the first letter of each word and read what remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Salad | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...when the youngest of his six strapping sons (Phillip Alford) is captured by Yankee troops, later to be snatched from death's jaws by his former playmate, a freed slave. The rest of the family goes searching for him, enduring separation, fear and wanton slaughter, before they return home just in time to ride off for Sunday services at the village church. There, naturally, the lost son hobbles in on a makeshift crutch. Shenandoah's final comment on the futility of war conveys the odd impression that it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Local Nuisance | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

Eighteen years after the British had destroyed the Zulu nation, they crushed Benin. Objecting to the sale of slaves and human sacrifice, a consul general set out in 1897 with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: The Bronzes of Benin | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...pumps-a motel, restaurant, barber shop, clothing store and free shower-&-steam-rooms. In North Lima, Ohio, an American Oil truck stop includes feeding facilities for traveling cattle and a rabbi to supervise shipments of kosher meat, which must be watered down every 72 hours between the slaughter and its delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Changes at the Pump | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

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