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They brought with them only a few possessions: some pandanus leaves to thatch their new houses; their vernacular Bibles, Congregational Hymnals and Mother Hubbards which had been left them by Yankee missionaries, and latent syphilis left by Yankee whalers of the pre-atomic...
...Menthon, the 20 Boches in the dock were not the only guilty ones. The entire German people was to blame, he declared, for Naziism merely had exploited their "power of latent barbarism . . . one of the deepest and most tragic facets of the German soul. . . . Certain of their eternal and deep-seated aspirations have found monstrous expressions under the Hitler regime; their entire responsibility is involved. . . . Their re-education is indispensable...
...lived in the Gothic Middle Ages-and I am thinking not only of the skyline with its painted towers, gates and walls . . . the crooked, haunted-looking alleys. ... In the atmosphere itself something had clung of ... the hysteria of the dying Middle Ages, something of latent spiritual epidemic. It's a strange thing to say about a sensibly sober, modern commercial city, but it was conceivable that a Children's Crusade might suddenly erupt there-in short, an anciently neurotic substratum was perceptible...
Under the pretext of insufficient shipping space, our G.I.s are made to remain in India. Their presence gives latent support to Britain's most controversial colonial issue! On Nov. 23, an American in uniform was killed by rioting mobs in Calcutta. This tragedy is but a sample of the news that may be forthcoming from that unhappy country if we believe even a portion of the dire prediction of TIME'S London Bureau editors [TIME...
Professor Strode does not believe that everybody can be taught how to write. He restricts his four-session-a-week "clinic" to those who he thinks have genuine latent talent; twelve to 14 is the usual number. They read no textbooks, hear no lectures, spend their entire time writing, revising, polishing, criticizing each other's products, absorbing pungent Strode comments...