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Word: virtuese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Who fights for Communism must be able to fight and not to fight, to say the truth and not to say the truth, to render and to deny service, to keep a promise and to break a promise, to go into danger and to avoid danger, to be known and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Of All the Virtues . . . | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Not many people have managed to wade through the six-volume, 160,000-word report of Harry Truman's Commission on Higher Education. One who has is Robert Maynard Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago. His comments, published in last week's Saturday Review of Literature, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bigger--but Better? | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Now & again this is a touching little story; but ultimately it is wrecked by Miller's longtime habit of trying to hang too heavy a meaning on too slender a frame. The virtues of economy and precision seem to have dawned on the author too late. Henry Miller'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Expatriate | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

This good little French film has a sentimentality that is too obvious to overlook. But Director Jacques Becker (It Happened at the Inn) has given it such virtues as a gently perceptive camera, unobtrusive realism, and, above all, genuine pathos.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Most telecasters believe that eventually Hollywood will be forced to spend at least 50% of its time and effort on making films that television can afford. So far, except for a few shorts, the only films being specially made for television are commercials, which often add a new dimension of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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