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...American way to combat the argument of someone with whom we disagree is not to suppress the utterance of another person's opinion, but to disprove it. It the long years wrich have followed the Civil War, the race against which this film discriminates has produced a more than ample record of equal and responsible citizenship...
Good satirists get so hot under the choler that they are always in danger of breaking out in a sentimental sweat-which is why many of them cling tightly to cold ferocity and suppress the feeblest spasms of affection. Satirist Evelyn Waugh has been no exception, but he is one of the few of his kind who has found the conflict between satirical art and goodness of heart a nagging, challenging problem. His ideal is the simple, honest "Christian gentleman"; Waugh cherishes things romantic, patriotic and traditional. Moreover, he is a religious man, whose irrepressible satirical arrogance is at variance...
...conceive how an article could have been less objectively written than the one, "Missionaries in Rome" [Sept. 29] ... Does TIME favor religious freedom? Does it make any difference to TIME whether 450 people or 450,000 people are involved? How would TIME describe an effort to suppress a Roman Catholic mission in some Protestant stronghold in America...
...Democratic symbol, a rooster, with the legend: "White Supremacy-for the Right." Said Dewey: "White supremacy is the battle cry of the old Ku Klux Klan. It is the battle cry of the hatemongers and the fascists. It is the battle cry of those who would suppress the rights of all minorities . . . The Ku Klux Klan white-supremacy slogan was anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish and anti-Negro . . . Governor Stevenson pretends to be a modern, liberal gentleman who reads well-written, glittering speeches, defending the disreputable record of the Truman Administration. Meanwhile, with his full knowledge, Senator Sparkman continues to beat...
...Opposition politicos kept asking embarrassing questions, e.g., How was it that some 25 Buicks and Cadillacs had been imported duty-free in the President's name? El Khoury tried to suppress the scandals, but there weren't enough rugs in all Lebanon to sweep the dirt under. He kept losing supporters. Lebanese resented the nickname their country was getting: the Baksheesh State...