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Message to Peking. China's Chou played his assigned role to the hilt. He was modest, retiring, spoke only when spoken to. turned away wrath with a soft answer. He let Nehru speak for him, only nodding his head gently in agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Upset at Bandung | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...laugh, heartily and often, then growls at them harshly, "Honest folk may act like sinners, unless they've had their customary dinners." Whatever one thinks of Brecht's grievances of thirty years ago, he makes them compelling and troubling. Marc Blitzstein's fine translation never abates Brecht's wrath or his humor...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: The Threepenny Opera | 4/29/1955 | See Source »

Moreover, the central position of the chapel permits it to be sighted especially well from the ice-rink and baseball field, where mundane pettiness must give way to divine forgival and benediction. Here, this conspicuous exterior may act to furnish added inspiration to a religious tirade, or even assuage wrath by its soothing religiosity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBOT CHAPEL | 4/26/1955 | See Source »

...cousins, it turns out, was the betrayer. After a harrowing inquisition, the old lady sternly ordains that the boy must stand public trial. The sequel is shame, murder and flight-all contrasted with the lovely countryside, the growing vineyards where the grapes are not of wrath but of forgetful peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...holy Bible definitely teaches that Christ is coming back to this world! . . . First, He will disturb the economic life. There are thousands of economic injustices . . . Second, He will disturb the political status quo. The dictators, the aggressors, the crafty politicians and corrupt political systems . . . will be objects of His wrath. Third, He will disturb the social status quo . . . Fourth, He will also disturb the religious status quo. The most scathing denunciations that Christ gave 2,000 years ago were against religious leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: If Christ Came Back | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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