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These are the days that try men's souls; the petty, perfunctory academic hurdles loom large before one's eyes. The short-sighted will feel oppressed. A flight to contemplation of the eternal grand, indifferent order of things is needed to counteract this obsession with the ephemeral. Many have turned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mirabile Visu | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

Lady pictures the how of a gambler's obsession with a good deal of plausibility. Especially skillful are Barbara Stanwyck's hard-breathing, glitter-eyed performance at the gaming tables, and Russell Metty's feverish camera work in & out of the neon-lighted dens of Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

The Real Issue. Muñoz never took his eye off the political ball. He won a smashing legislative victory in 1944, and by 1948 he was a shoo-in for Governor. In both campaigns he told his people that their old obsession about political status, i.e., whether they should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Some anti-Harvard feelings among the police and towns people is understandable, if only for economic differences. However, I suspect that this feeling in a policeman is indicative of some psychic disturbance which, harmful enough in itself, could be extended to other prejudices and obsession. Needless to say, a policeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

For one thing, there were his sermons on taking the profit out of war. Says he: "One or two people always stomp angrily out of the church whenever I intimate that anybody ever made a profit out of war." He also preached against "the obsession with making money," and "sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Risks of Brotherhood | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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