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Wings Without Angels. Commonweal's point of view (which makes such conservative Catholic publications as the Brooklyn Tablet hopping mad) is presented each week by a triumvirate of devout but underpaid editors, aided by outside articles on politics, philosophy and the arts (for about a cent a word) from such contributors as Catholics Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh, Sean O'Faolain, non-Catholics Franz Werfel, Dorothy Thompson, Anglican W. H. Auden. The editors can print whatever they like because they have no publishing angel, no official ties with the Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Commonweal & Woe | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...respectability Ensor professed to fear finally overtook him, and he yielded without a struggle. In 1929 King Albert made him a baron. Before his death in 1949, he saw his paintings hung in most of Belgium's museums. In Ostend, a tablet was placed on the wall of his house, a street was named for him, and a statue was erected. Artist Ensor unveiled the statue himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Belgian Misanthrope | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...between the meetinghouse and the U.N. headquarters house, two blocks away. This headquarters, which stood between low hills on the outskirts of Kaesong, had been assigned and furnished by the Communists; the U.N. staff refurnished it with articles trucked up from Munsan. Outside the headquarters house was a stone tablet bearing the words Yung-ting Tai-meaning Everlasting Stability Terrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Red Backdown | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...been given six months to live. He had a roaring in the head which made it impossible for him to work. He had the operation nine months ago, responded so well that he got a job as a night orderly at Peter Bent Brigham. Considine takes a cortisone tablet twice a day and gets a daily injection of desoxycorticosterone. It is too early to say what success the technique may have in treating extreme high blood pressure, and Dr. Thorn was bending over backward to be conservative in his report. But four of the patients surviving without adrenals had shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Without Adrenals | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...White in The New Yorker as Across the Street and into the Grill) had strong popular support; it stood firmly at the top of the bestseller list. There was also moral support from fellow Writer Evelyn Waugh. The critics, wrote Waugh in London's Catholic weekly, the Tablet, ". . . have been smug, condescending, derisive, some with unconcealed glee, some with an affectation of pity; all are agreed that there is a great failure to celebrate ... I believe the truth is that they have detected in him something they find quite unforgivable-Decent Feeling. Behind all the bluster and cursing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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