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...long, tense duel begins, wit to wit and will across will, between the embattled householder and the leering principle of unreason that fists in his refrigerator and lords it on his hearth. Worse still, March soon realizes that the law is no less his enemy than the outlaw; for if the police find out where the criminals are hiding, they are sure to come after them, and when they do, Bogart & Co., as promised, will make sure that March and family die first. The man of the house stands alone, and if he falls, his family falls with him. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 10, 1955 | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...film is more than one comic situation. Hans Adalbert as the wispy, gray-haired fraud, is a universal citizen exhausted by military unreason. Although in later scenes he dons a guttural arrogance with his uniform, it is Adalbert's portrayal of a foot mat which distinguishes the film...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: The Captain From Koepenick | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

...Christian witness against atheism, and shocks those who know the suffering and persecutions which Christians have had to bear at the hands of Communists." What then could be done about him? "The church," said Dr. Fisher, "has no power to proceed against the Dean. If he is guilty of unreason and delusion to a remarkable degree, these faults do not, short of certifiable lunacy, expose anyone to legal consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Enduring the Public Nuisance | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...personally hope that Parliament would not be so ill-advised as to try to remove the Dean or restrict his freedom of utterance . . . It is a tragedy that the abusers of freedom thereby jeopardize other men's freedom, but it is wisdom to bear with folly and unreason and delusions . . . as a price worth paying to preserve this freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Enduring the Public Nuisance | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...Reason & Unreason. Between Indonesians and Dutch, the British muddled. (Technically they were present in the Indies to accept the Jap surrender and to keep order during the process.) With India, Burma and Malaya in the back of their minds, they trod warily, favoring neither full native autonomy nor a return to prewar colonialism. "If the Dutch make a reasonable offer," said a British spokesman, "the rest depends on the Indonesians. We can only satisfy reason; then we must deal with unreason." Significantly he added: "If matters come to the use of force by the Dutch, world opinion will not stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Muddle | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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