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Choir: Alle Menschen werden Bruder Wo dein sanfte Flugel weils...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspite, | Title: Berlin Fantasy: Tug-of-War | 10/24/1961 | See Source »

...Rebel's Conversion. By then Nigerian politics had taken on a permanent three-way stretch. In the Ibo East, Zik's National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons held sway. In the West, the Action Group, headed by shrewd, stodgy Chief Obafemi Awolowo (pronounced Ah-Wo-lo-wo), spoke for the Yoruba people. Northern power then (as now) meant tall, solemn Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna (commander) of Sokoto and boss of the Northern Peoples Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: The Black Rock | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...Drive for Trust. Though Japan clearly cannot defend itself, the attitude of most Japanese toward their military alliance with the U.S. nonetheless remains an unenthusiastic "yamu wo enai [it can't be helped]"-which lends strength to the vocal minority which openly prefers neutralism or "neutralism leaning toward China." To forestall the possibility that this situation might ultimately explode in a flash of all-out hostility to the U.S., Ambassador MacArthur soon fell in with Kishi's insistence that the time had come for American concessions designed to convert the Japanese public from yamu wo enai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The No. 1 Objective | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...spirit of the dead," walks about moaning "Meh, meh, meh," and will "eat your soul" unless you hum back at him in a gentle singsong. Tall Timakanā, "the leg-bone ghost," has big, swollen knees that beat together when he walks and make a noise like "ti-ye-wo, ti-ye-wo." The aé lives in the trees "like a very large spider monkey" and has "red hair, red eyes, a blue penis, and blue bones." Of course all this crew is active only at night, when the stars-"which are attached to the sky by a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Under the Blue Derby | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Civil War-Stonewall Jackson, vibrant and vital, writing his wife about his glory at First Bull Run: "God made my brigade more instrumental than any other in repulsing the main attack"; Ulysses Grant, daring, dazzling, slashing through the sleet against Fort Donelson without benefit of orders: 'Wo terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works"; Robert E. Lee, the superb exemplar, bareheaded astride Traveller at Spotsylvania, held back from leading the charge: "General Lee to the rear, General Lee to the rear"; Phil Sheridan, little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil War: On Memorial Day the Memory Is Alive & Vital | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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