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...laymen have felt that the context of the New Testament obscured, if it did not confuse, the words of Christ. One of them was Leo Tolstoy, who made his own translation of the Gospels; another was Thomas Jefferson, who made his own (somewhat arbitrarily eclectic) anthology of Christ's words...
...TIME story deals with two poems, one written in 1935 and the other in 1937. By taking both out of their context in the book, and by taking a few lines out of their context in the poems, it makes them mean exactly what they do not mean when read as a whole...
...despite this weakness, the poetic brilliance of the second issue of Trend has both the originality and pertinence, requisite for successful undergraduate literary effort, and subscribers may rejoice that the publication has not fallen before the "Sophomore Jinx." Improved in appearance and more experimental in context, this copy is a worthy complement to its sloppier but more staid predecessor...
...anti-trust suits may have been a case of mixed signals. If not, and despite the questionable relevance of the old antitrust laws in the broadcasting context, the Justice Department might make it tough. In Manhattan, the rumor was that Mutual would soon slap down a damage suit against NBC, alleging violation of the anti-trust laws. With this cold turkey NBC and CBS began the New Year...
...this context that we must consider the influence of Russia in the post-war world. Laski advices that "the conservative American student who fears that the defeat of Hitler will open the floodgates to Bolshevism has the elementary duty to see that the masses. . . have something to conserve." Bolshevism is only a danger, according to Laski, if we cannot offer another and better alternative...