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...along the Aleutian Islands to Japan and down through the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to the Philippines. In case of attack on this line, he said, the U.S. would defend all these positions. (For Korea, hanging perilously close to the most naked of Russian ambitions, the Secretary offered only a vaguer acknowledgment of "responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Defense Rests | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Unlike the best of his earlier drawings, these are vaguer in outline, foggier in theme, harder to unravel. Like them, they feature literal and psychological nakedness. His first two books were worth the time of anyone who was willing to look at himself in psychic undress and momentarily exchange his individuality for the plight of today's mythical Everyman. Dean doesn't have "entirely different thoughts now" (see cut); he merely has more incomprehensible ones. Psychiatrists may decide that Dean is now poking around at a deeper level of the subconscious; to plain folks and old-fashioned artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Anybody Happy? | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...very ill, he sent his brother a self-portrait head which seems to burn like an electric bulb, with nerves for filaments. "You must look at it for some time," he wrote. "You will see, I hope, that my features are a good deal calmer, though my look is vaguer than formerly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shock Treatment | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Luck. Bikini left plain people as worried as Pravda, but for different, vaguer reasons. In Paris' rue Cambon, about 25 minutes' walk away from the Big Four Conference Hall, the day after Bikini a long narrow mirror fastened to a wall suddenly fell to the ground without apparent cause. A crowd gathered about the broken glass that boded seven years of bad luck to someone. A frowzy woman murmured: "The atom bomb." The people near her nodded gravely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: The Broken Mirror | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Potsdam declaration would not be known until the meaning of some of its vaguer phrases and omissions was cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Attention, Tokyo! | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

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