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...insist on putting a stop to the loose talk and erratic behavior that has marked the conduct of our foreign affairs these past three years and that has confused our purposes and frightened our friends if not our enemies. I mean creat ing or encouraging the illusion that all is well, or at least better, that miracles happened at Geneva last summer, that peace and security are around the corner like some other Republican blessings I can think of. Well, the fact is that our foreign affairs are not prospering any more than agriculture is prospering. The fact is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debut in Duluth | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Dramatically, "Hotel Berlin" is poorly constructed, with a great many unnecessary scenes added to creat atmosphere. The action is fast-moving and exciting until the end when the whole thing comes to an abrupt stop, leaving the audience up in the air. However, it is pleasant to see several characters end up in front of a gun. Doubtless, many moviegoers will feel they amply deserved their fates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/27/1945 | See Source »

...trouble with New York, the trouble with practically all of the cities of our land, of which it is the type, is that all, alas, we who live there have thought of them in terms of money, never of men. And as we sowed, so have we reaped. Creat markets, great money centres, our cities have become little else. Even the amusements that are there are just a way of making money, or of spending it. Naturally, their politics have fallen under the same head. Graft is not a product but a corrupter of politics. And as to the source...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTICLE BY JACOB RIIS | 1/26/1907 | See Source »

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