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...Under such conditions one might expect the scientist to be the most secure man in our society. He holds almost ultimate power-the power of life or death. But many an American scientist is ... in moral torment. He has watched his science move from theory to human holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: THE UNEASY SCIENTISTS | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...worst time of all came when Runyon worked on one of his gay little stories. He was an agony writer, suffering torment over every painfully minted wisecrack. The household suffered with him, paralyzed into a dread silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sorrowful | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...Sexes & the Plants. Emily's every etter was an outpouring of her heart. At first, most of her problems were the typical but painful ones that torment the growing girl. Why, she asked his Rev tearfully, was she so nervous, so tongue-tied, so resentful? Why could she "hold a baby in any position . . . without letting it fall, and yet, if I take up a . . . glass, it is ure to drop from my hands and break?" "There is no mystery in the matter," answered he cheerfully: "You are attentive to the baby and not to the glass.") How could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victoriana | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...Once, when the Sultan sent male servants to flog some women for "a peccadillo," the men "were conquered by their charms and, tossing aside the implements of torment, subjected the pretty victims to a more tender treatment." The monarch found them in flagrante delicto; the women were whipped while the Sultan laughed at their screams, then thrown into foul cells, where they were kept on starvation rations. The men were also whipped and then chained to the walls of their cells. All twelve were released when Ben Youssef was deposed as Sultan. Previous victims of similar punishments died in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lions or Bullets? | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...Your article . . . struck me as the most interesting factual biography I have ever read in any magazine. Little did I realize the torment he went through in regard to his family troubles both as a youth and a father. All in all, this fine article left me with nothing wanting, much like some of the immortal O'Neill's writings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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