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...abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life which surrounds him. I refuse to ac cept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daylight of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Two Perspectives | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...horizon, there are anxious stretches when a navigator can spot no stars against a bright sky lit from below. If he is heading eastward, he soon flies into darkness, and his guiding stars reappear. But fast jets almost keep pace with the sun, and on westward flights the baffling, starless twilight may last for several hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Errors in the Air | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...Texas Christian (8-2)-suffered the understandable letdown and lost to Southern Methodist 20-13 after clinching the Southwest Conference title and a place in the Cotton Bowl with a competent but starless team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Along with the audience, the sounds emitted by the nation's 3,779 AM and FM radio stations have changed too. In place of the nostalgic big names and expensive-talent dramatic shows, most U.S. stations blare forth a starless mishmash of hip music, skimmed news and honey-voiced disk jockeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Battle for Ears | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

Malaya (MGM) squanders Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and a name-heavy supporting cast in the kind of adventuresome folderol that lesser studios crank out regularly on small, starless budgets. Such high-priced talent probably seemed worth using while the story was still an idea based on an authentic wartime scheme: the smuggling of rubber out of Japanese-held Malaya. But the picture beats the basic idea into pulp fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 13, 1950 | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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