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Apart from the celluloid clichés, there is a legitimate drama to the whole monstrous crime, and Uris captures some of it. Unfortunately, the scale of racial mass murder dwarfs the individual. The enormity of horror resembles a cataclysm of nature like an earthquake or a typhoon, and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to The Wall | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

The Strength of Size. As the African states have emerged to independence, United Africa has actively sought ways to cooperate with their new nationalism. To avoid charges that it smothers native enterprise, the company has begun to cut back on its retail operations and expand its role as a wholesale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: Sailing with Africa's Wind | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

After six years they have two children and nothing in common. Running across a Negro maid (Odetta) who worked in the brothel, the heroine hires her to look after the children and to remind her of the "sanctuary" of sin and pleasure that she loved so well. Then, without warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Southern Discomfort | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Back at Hyde Park, a more insidious and possibly more dangerous stage of the battle begins: the struggle with his dominating, possessive mother (Ann Shoemaker), who personifies and marshals all the self-indulgence and inertia in his soul as she smothers him with affection, murmuring soothingly over and over that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 10, 1960 | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

All over the Far East, 19th century Christian missionaries tried to win the heathen with the hymn-huffing harmonium. Now from West German Protestant Theologian Ernst Benz comes an attack on the meek little organ as an instrument of "tyranny and dictatorship" that smothers rather than kindles the spread of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Halt the Harmonium | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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