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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symbol of a City. Some impenitent Germans were cockily confident that their anti-Russian hatred was the only certificate they needed to be acclaimed as valiant brothers in the Western fraternity. Rage at this fact misses the truth that in Berlin today tens of thousands of other Germans are risking their lives to defy Communist tyranny. Tens of thousands, within sight of Red Army tanks, are fighting Communism openly and well. They know that if the Communists ever control all Berlin, they will be done for. They fear war, like all reasonable men; they would be the first to feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Chestnut Tree | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...said that spoke from a natural bias. Nobody could accuse Al (Li'l Abner) Capp of disloyalty to his profession. Was there a shred of truth in his assertion? To prove that there might be, 100 topflight cartoonists were exhibiting their best work in Manhattan last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Strippers | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Future) clearly had a hand in editing it, but many Christians may find that Lindbergh's Christianity has a chilling, impersonal, antiseptic quality. "We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Lao-tzu, the teachings of Buddha," he declares. To Lindbergh, science "intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition." Once science has helped mankind to separate "the truths of God . . . from the dogma which surrounds them ... we still have the possibility, here in America, of building a civilization based on Man, where . . . leadership rests on the respect and confidence it instills in others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Antiseptic Christianity | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...happens to them. Dick Powell is about the only person in the cast it is possible to like, and the longer the show goes on, the harder it is to believe that he has good sense. When he finally does come clean, his wife's reactions to the truth are unqualifiedly abominable, and remain so. But it is obvious-and hard to bear-that Dick and everyone else connected with the making of this movie regard her as an ideal wife whose abominableness is completely justified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...much truth the philosophers had amassed was perhaps best revealed by a little man who rose from the back rows and asked permission to speak. After several minutes his learned listeners still understood nothing of his polysyllabic lecture. At length he went to the blackboard and drew a series of complicated equations (which Expert Russell later pronounced nonsense). Then the little man smiled and said softly: "And this, gentlemen, solves the problem of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: The Consolations of Philosophy | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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