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...TIME'S editors come to the task of telling the news clearly, accurately, fairly and meaningfully in a way that goes well beyond spot-news coverage. Naturally, they must deal with all the big news; in fact, they deal with a lot more. In any issue the reader will find story after story that is news only because TIME made it so-by getting the idea, seeing the trend or probing for essential meaning...
Calls are now down to 30 or 40 a day, letters come in at the rate of 50 a day. Many reader complaints, checked out by the staff, have grown into Trib stories, and under Trib needling the city administration has been moved to action. It has cleaned up sewage that had been accumulating for weeks in the basement of a city-owned building; towed away autos that had been abandoned for more than a month, clogging residential streets while they were gradually stripped of parts; stepped-up housing inspections of heatless, waterless slum buildings; installed a long-deferred central...
...this caricature of conscience, gaily colored symbols jump at the reader like pop-up pictures in a children's book. It must be painful to be a German and read this novella: it is hard enough to read it as a bystander...
...because he is a corrupt womanizer. Then there's Ann. She has grown up from the plain good girl of bad novels published several seasons back and become the lovely, sexy girl Author Gilbert shows her to be today. Daringly, he makes her rich, too. But the reader can be sure that the girl named Ann is still good at heart...
...have as their epigraph the theme of Goya's nightmarish etching cycle, the Caprichos: "The sleep of reason produces monsters." With merciless humor, Goya gave the forms of grotesque man-beasts to 18th century hypocrisies. Jakov Lind, writing cheerily of cannibals and cripples in Nazi Germany, imprisons the reader in sweaty dreams of guilt. The guilt is not merely German. Lind's force lies in his ability to suggest that the sleep of reason in this century produced not only monsters but a monstrous complicity-a pact signed and mutually witnessed by murderers, accessories, victims and the world...