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...Syrian Prime Ministers since 1949. Last December, alarmed by his country's corruption and by Communism's increasing strength, he emerged from his calculated obscurity and took over the government, announcing, as he suspended Parliament, that he was really not a dictator at heart. Polite and painstakingly softspoken, he once endured an amateur performance of The Importance of Being Earnest to the bitter end although he knew no English. Scrupulously honest, even by his enemies' admission, he recently furnished his modest Damascus home on the installment plan because he had no ready cash. A narrow escape from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: The Shy Dictator | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...mild modern stereotype of a Quaker would surprise the fiery Friends of George Fox's 17th Century as much as today's average idea of a Christian would surprise the dangerously living followers of St. Paul. The early Quakers were not quaint and softspoken; they were religious enthusiasts of passion and vociferous outrage who were not afraid to raise their voices against a minister in his pulpit or a slave dealer at his market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Ninth Hour | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Anderson's Socrates, as he moves about Athens, is humorous, misleadingly softspoken, exasperatingly inquisitive, relentlessly logical-so very much a gadfly that it's no wonder he was made into a scapegoat. And as played by English Actor Barry Jones, with brilliant ease and assurance, he takes on genuine personality. Raiding history a second time-for a theme-Anderson contrasts democracy in Athens with dictatorship in Sparta, a parallel with modern times that Anderson isn't the first to note. Though the point is well worth making, Socrates has to be lassoed into making it. Socrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...Hollywood. This wonderful binge of laughs and coin could not last forever; the depression hit Broadway, too. Lahr's wife was suffering from a mental illness and after painful years their marriage was annulled. He was married again, to a softspoken, ash-blonde ex-showgirl named Mildred Schroeder. Meanwhile he had headed west to try Hollywood for size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: $6.60 Comedian | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Undeterred, the anti-American opposition, led by India's softspoken, white-thatched Sir Benegal Rau, pressed for continued negotiations. Rau announced that he had received a message from Red China's capital, through the Indian Ambassador, that amplified the Communist counterproposal. Though the message did not seem to lessen Peking's demands for a U.N. surrender, Rau asked that the Assembly's Political & Security Committee adjourn for 48 hours while its implications were studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Seven Months After | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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