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True extent of the suppression of the German people, of their obsession with being downtrodden, remains invisible until they are given even the slightest jot of authority. Meekest lambs in submission become vindictive tomcats in office. Last week Hermann Göring took official and stern notice of this phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slackers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Disputed Passage (Paramount) recounts the up-to-date version of the believer who loses his faith-the strict scientist who loses his atheism. This cinematic sermon is based on a novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, retired parson, whose best-selling Green Light and Magnificent Obsession, both successfully picturized, both treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Green's journal is an anthology of the things which an intelligence of a high order has seen, heard, talked of, cared for, feared, felt, thought, during the past ten years. There is an obsession, as readers of his novels would expect, with death; a strong interest in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Add Literature | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Few people know much about Machiavelli except that he sired the sinister adjective Machiavellian. Even those who know a little more differ widely about him. Some, like Ralph Roeder (The Man of the Renaissance), consider Machiavelli an Italian patriot and his Prince a kind of Mein Kampf of Italy'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power Politician | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

The Work. Woman with Long Hair illustrates Picasso's perennial obsession with catching the essence of several facial expressions and positions at once, creating a visual "now you see it now you don't." It is of such peculiar problems, enormously complicated and multiplied in certain pictures, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art's Acrobat | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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