Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soul-searching eye of U.S. liberal journalism focused again last week on the Nation (circ. 35,106). Wrote ex-Communist Granville Hicks in the liberal Jewish Commentary: "However paradoxical it appears, the magazine that calls itself 'America's leading liberal weekly since 1865' ... in some sense serves today as an apologist for Soviet Russia...
Student Shen Yu-sheng: "Before liberation I read American pornographic periodicals, movie magazines and novels about psychological perverts . . . If it had not been for Chairman Mao and the Communist Party, I would either have sold my soul to the devil or taken my life...
...soul of a great newspaper is about to be destroyed," said Editor Robin Cruikshank of London's News Chronicle in a special broadcast to some 8,000,000 Britons. "That concerns all of us who love freedom. The Argentine is a long way off. We may never have seen La Prensa, but the freedom of all free men everywhere is hurt by such an attack . . . When liberty of the press is destroyed no other freedom is safe...
...hustled over to another liberal weekly, the anti-Communist New Leader. Like the New Republic, which a fortnight ago trounced its British cousin, the New Statesman & Nation (TIME, March 19), for its anti-American line, the New Leader last week was delighted to further the latest bit of soul-searching on the left wing. It printed Greenberg's letter and added editorially: "Since the Nation has campaigned for many years against censorship in all its forms, we cannot understand why it should itself now indulge in this form of censorship...
...have the simple, uncompromising, logical answer: unconditional surrender to Rome. Let all who call themselves Christians submit to the authority of the Roman Church, they say, and the unity of Christendom will thereby be established. And again Protestants cannot agree. The Bible and the conscience of the individual soul, they believe, are higher and more trustworthy authorities than any pontiff, any single church...