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...obscure leftist monthly (Politics) has appeared, in the guise of a study of the Iliad, a writing of remarkable spiritual resonance. It was written in France during the Nazi occupation. Its author: a French woman, Simone Weil, who died (1943) at 34. Its title: The Iliad, or The Poem of Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: From the Greeks to the Gospels | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...force was nothing new. But what the 20th Century contributed was a growing belief in force as a beneficent factor in human progress. This was the 20th Century's specific heresy. This heresy is the background against which Simone Weil wrote The Iliad, or The Poem of Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: From the Greeks to the Gospels | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...WEIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...Halls, Tenn.; Clark E. McDonald, of Memphis, Tenn.; David G. Reed, of Middleboro, Mass.; Lot J. Seacat, of Ramsey, Ind.; Howard E. Sommer, of Chicago, III.; Herbert F. Stewart, of New York City; Harry M. Strong, of North Seattle, Wash.; Earl W. Tyler, Jr., of Richmond, Va.; Robert S. Weil, of Montgomery, Ala.; and Phillip J. Wolf 3d, of East St. Louis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major-Gen. Miles Appoints 15 Quartermaster Officers | 6/3/1942 | See Source »

...might say, was rather alcoholic." > Frank E. Mullen, for five years manager of Radio Corp. of America's information department, became vice president in charge of advertising and publicity. > Marvin W. Smith, manager of engineering of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., became a vice president. > Richard ("Bobby") Weil Jr. became president of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co., whose $30,000,000 annual sales make it the fourth biggest U. S. department store. Slight, abrupt President Weil is a 31-year-old Yaleman, son of Minnie Straus, whose family owns both Bamberger's and Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: New Jobs for Old | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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