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...risk of uprooting themselves to come to the New World, he says, the nation's genetic stock and national culture should be heavily Type T. "If I'm right on that," Farley conjectures, "we should be an enormously vital nation with both T-plus, creative people, and T-minus, destruc tive people, both overrepresented." He adds, "We should--and do--have very high crime rates relative to many other countries of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Looking for a Life of Thrills | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...Although we are entirely opposed to weapons of mass destruc- tion, I suppose many of my colleagues would support conven tional weapons of one kind or another. No one at C.N.D. is suggesting that any country abandon all military defense." The C.N.D. wants Britain emptied of nuclear weapons because, says Kent, "we are not prepared to be the first casualties in a war between the superpowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarming Threat to Stability | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...exterminated by the church." Do you consider that advocacy of suicide is "strict, otherworldly practice of Christian ity"? Are you in favor of the Albigensian doctrine of concubinage and unrestrained carnal actions, as "strict and otherworldly Chris tianity"? . . . If the Albigensian heresy had triumphed, it would have meant the destruc tion of civilization through the ruination of the home and family because of their anti social teaching on marriage. They were a threat not only to the church, but also to the well-being of society at large . . . Let's not advertise the Albigensians as simon-pure Christians, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...come up from hungry Italy. But not even Italy's plight was as dire as that of Poland. "This is the worst situation we have seen so far," he said to the world. "The Polish people are digging themselves out of the greatest political, intellectual and moral destruc tion ever known. . . . A Polish woman remarked to me today, 'We are weary of dying'. . . . It is a forbidding picture, but with food until the next harvest, Poland can rise again." The Responsibility. From Warsaw Hoover hurried on to Helsinki, then to London. A continent's anguish cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: The Flagellafor | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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