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Time has worked a peculiar irony on playwrights like Shaw and Ibsen. Their liberal, independent-minded heroes and heroines are beginning to sound like stubborn, self-willed children who refuse to grow up to reality. At the same time, ironically, their reactionary clerics and villainous statesmen are beginning to sound like paragons of good sense. The doctrine Shaw preaches in Saint Joan is every woman her own woman, every man his own king and commoner, his own lawgiver and lawbreaker, his own god and creature. The very adoption of these ideas has exposed their limitations as panaceas for a better...
Word-of-Mouth. Before introducing the Super Sword, its stainless blade, Wilkinson was a little-known firm that had long been doing a comfortable business in ceremonial swords, bulletproof vests for fearful dictators and statesmen, and fire-detection equipment. It was pinning its future growth on a new line of high quality garden tools, had no desire to excite a battle of blades. But no matter how much it tried to down play its stainless blades and use them only to promote its tools, Wilkinson's blade sales took off in a flurry of word-of-mouth advertising. They...
...then after the story (Nov. 29) about Sihanouk's attack on U.S. aid, a new decree banned TIME for "critical acts of injury against the Cambodian government." But the fact that we are not one of the Prince's favorite magazines nor he one of our favorite statesmen does not mean that we can or should ignore...
...other ex-Prime Minister, grey-haired Harold Macmillan, was at his side, putting a steadying hand beneath Churchill's arm. Macmillan, now 70 and barely recovered from a serious prostate operation last fall, no longer carries himself with the ramrod posture of a Guardsman. Together, the elder statesmen walked slowly beneath Churchill Arch and into the members' lobby: two great national figures moving into the sunset glow of history...
During his talks, Graham spoke with soft words and with harsh threats, quoted both modern statesmen and the Scriptures, and even reasoned with his audience to lead them to choose a "life with Christ." And when he met with a smaller crowd in Burr B. Graham was a grammar school teacher speaking to his children telling them what a commitment might mean in everyday terms...