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Judge Leibowitz, already determined to defer Scarpati's sentence for further study, slowly turned to the jury. "There you have it, gentlemen-unrehearsed, unexpected, but with a thousandfold greater force than if you had read it in some professor's book . . ." He looked down at Joe Senatore. "I agree with you one hundred percent. But what do you think the court should do in this case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Witness | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...News Chronicle's Alan Dent wrote: "The emotion this great piece of acting evoked in this normally unenthusiastic breast of mine was re-echoed a thousandfold by the audience's yell of acclamation at the end." W. A. Darlington of the Daily Telegraph thought: "He was never less than first rate, and again and again he touched magnificent." Other critics merely repeated this theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Olivier's Lear | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...prophet of the big lie, the propagandist who believed in "the thousandfold repetition of the most simple ideas" could not face himself even in the face of doomsday. On rich bond stationery, bearing his printed name and a silver swastika atop each page, he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pauper's Will | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Czechs Arise. Slovakia was in revolt. The Berlin radio sputtered: "Soviet parachutists, saboteurs . . . Slav murderers and bandits. . . . We shall exact two thousandfold revenge. . . ." Screamed Dictator Father Joseph Tiso: "Slovakians! Give up your arms. If we keep order we shall not be occupied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Outlook Bad | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...many little things I have learned from my sister wives that have added to the joys and comforts I can administer to my husband. I am convinced he loves any one of us far better than the monogamist knows how to.... My capacity to love my husband increased a thousandfold when I gave him another wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virtues of Polygamy | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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