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...Republican Spain: because he has a heartfelt sympathy for the underdog. The closest he has come to defining his idea of practical Socialism is a "democratic commonwealth" with the key means of production owned by the state, but much industry in private hands. This is what he has striven for in India, but he has plainly agreed to postpone plans for large-scale nationalization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEAS: Pandit's Mind | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Ever since plump brunette dancer Margarita Carmen Cansino became a slim red-haired actress named Rita Hayworth, she has striven purposefully to live up to her rising station in life. When she dropped Husband No. 1, Eddie Judson (who also served as a valuable business manager), she contented herself with the casual observation: "I didn't have any fun." When she divorced Husband No. 2, Orson Welles, she felt called upon to explain somewhat more precisely: "I just can't take his genius any more." But when it came to explaining the decline of her romance with Husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Onward & Upward | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Despite the unyielding sordidness of most of the characters, despite the poor translation by Barea's wife, despite the lack of political or social subtlety, the book begins to show life near the end. The off repeated patterns finally assume the air of intense reality for which Barea has striven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spanish Loyalist Returns | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

...President of the United States can do," he continued, "is to endeavor to make the Government-the Executive branch-run in the public interest. I have striven very hard to accomplish that purpose . . . No President can be correctly evaluated during his term, or within twenty-five or thirty years after that term ... It takes an objective survey of what has happened and what was trying to be accomplished to decide whether the President has been a success or not. And you can't decide that now or here, and neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Clean House, with Termites | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...readers with materials which are of contemporary interest. National institutions will be examined and described-not as abstractions, but as concrete realities; and current affairs-whether in the region of science, art, literature, society, or politics-will be discussed from no purely theoretical standpoint. That is what I have striven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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