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...newspaperman learns that a girl with whom he has been living has casually let herself be sterilized, and that a debutante with whom he would like to play house is all too fertile. He arranges for an abortion, although he is not the deb's undoer. He is caught, stripped and tortured almost to death by the girl's brother and two accomplices, not because of the abortion plans but just for the sadistic hell of it. Eventually he marries the girl, and as the book ends, he is about to divorce her. "The evidence which the various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Sex Necessary? | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

Supernatural Imagination. This prelude was in the style of a Wagnerian soliloquy. The next evil undoer of righteous Germany to be taken up was Bolshevism, by which, roared Siegfried Hitler, "the world of supernatural imagination is torn apart, a God is dethroned, Religion and Church are rooted out-thus laying waste the world beyond. . . . Imperial and kingly domains fall and eradicate themselves-even from memory! . . . Democracies are relinquished. . . . Terrors of unemployment . . . terrors of hunger. . . . Astounded peoples see that the God of War has not abandoned His armament but, on the contrary, strides over the earth more heavily armed than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bludgeons & Cookies | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...wondered at that Asiatics look askance at the League of Nations and want more proof that it will be a help rather than their undoer? If the present attitude toward Asiatics does not change then Asia for Asiatics will be a justifiable slogan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASIA LOOKS ASKANCE AT LEAGUE SAYS INDIAN IN DISCUSSION OF THE ORIENTAL VIEWPOINT | 1/30/1926 | See Source »

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