Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chilly Wiesbaden home last week, Walter Gieseking, one of the five greatest living pianists,* huddled close to a small iron stove. He wrote a statement for the German press: "The German people may not understand what has happened in New York . . . They might think all America was demonstrating." But, in his opinion, "the demonstrators were only a small minority, just excited people...
...July, a handy man in Baltimore confessed the murder of two eleven-year-old girls. Anywhere else in the U.S., it would have been Page One news. But not in Baltimore. There, judges of the Supreme Bench have a rule forbidding stories on confessions in local cases, because they think it might prejudice the defendant's right to an impartial trial. In the nine years in which Rule 904 has been in force the press has never seriously challenged it. When in doubt, an editor usually calls up a judge to ask what to print. So last July...
...Basic Question? The conservative Episcopal weekly, the Living Church, editorialized: "Are there any limits upon the right of a clergyman to engage in political action? Yes, we think there are; because his main duty is to teach the Christian religion . . . The basic question . . . is not freedom of speech . . . but the spiritual health and welfare of the congregation." The leftist Churchman fulminated against "the fear-ridden vestry." With a perfectly straight face, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship expressed its "amazement" and "shock...
Once Johnny, who had never prayed, said to his mother: "Speaking of prayers, I did think one up." He called it Unbeliever's Prayer and it went...
...Last week anti-Nazi Germans thought Die Neue Zeitung was speaking in the same guttural nationalist accents that General Lucius D. Clay has been inveighing against recently. Said the U.S.-licensed Frankfurter Rundschau: "Certain [Germans] smile when they read Die Neue Zeitung, as they can find there everything they think and do not dare to say . . . Whether they read the column called 'Observer' or the letterbox 'The Free Word' they will always find a sarcastic criticism of the American occupation or the Anglo-American occupation policy...