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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim to be an expert analyst, but in this part of the country we would surmise that N. Khrushchev has a well-developed case of inferiority complex. I do not at the moment recall any symptoms that he has overlooked exhibiting in a virulent form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...might question initially whether a college in which religion has been relegated strictly to the individual can turn around and claim for itself the field of moral philosophy--or whether it should content itself with the area of intellectual inquiry. This objection cannot be answered absolutely, unless a college education be defined broadly enough to include things other than merely academic matters. As Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity has observed, "The distinction between right and wrong is surely no less important than that between true and false." Professor Demos also points out that...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: 'Moral Philosophy' in a Secular University | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

...limited space must partially involve the Communist technique of presenting issues in Vienna: oversimplification. One surprising aspect of this was the utilization of "Fascism." The Communists use the label of "Fascism" to condemn anything they oppose, and fascist techniques to foster what they favor. A fervent Arab communist would claim that anyone in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a fascist, while a more educated Czech communist would admit the fascists were "less than 10 per cent," but reach the same conclusion by the subtle historical error of giving them credit "as the elite who engineered the counter-revolution." When...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Vienna Festival Chants 'Peace, Friendship' | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

...continental U.S. The chances are good that he owns stock sold in at least one of the 14 markets whose activities the Journal logs regularly. The chances are even better that he lives in that vast community to which Journal President Bernard Kilgore has staked a grandiloquent claim: "Everyone who is engaged in making a living or is interested in how other people make a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Main Street Journal* | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...National Planning Association, puts forth new evidence that the U.S.S.R. has no chance to match the economic level of the U.S. in the foreseeable future. Economist Nove flatly rejects Khrushchev's boast that the Soviets have boosted their industrial output to more than half the U.S. level. That claim, says Nove, who was born in Russia, is "based on an absurdly inadequate commodity sample." He figures that "40% is possible," but one-third of the U.S. level is closer to the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Slowdown for the Soviets | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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