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Oscared in all her 21 years in the movies: "At long last." The audience echoed her with a multitudinous sigh of relief, and shortly went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...unburdened himself of remarks like: ''The lowliest peasant of the Dark Ages had more opportunity for self-expression than the highest-paid employee at the Ford factory." When, in 1928, Niebuhr became an associate professor at Union Theological Seminary, Detroit's automotive tycoons breathed a sigh of relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Mine, I fear, is not a well-regulated mind: it has an occasional tenderness for old abuses; it lingers with a certain fondness over the days of nasal clerks and top-booted parsons, and has a sigh for the departed shades of vulgar errors. -George Eliot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Thunder & Grumbles | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...budget, which Katayama had not been able to achieve. Heavier taxes, higher government commodity prices would be necessary. Social Democrats boggled. The crisis came at a party convention last month. Left-wingers voted against continued support of the coalition. Katayama, realizing that his job was ending, let out a sigh: "All I want is sleep, sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Road | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...chromos, Sunday-school picture books and Christmas cards. Largely, they were hack work, to be judged in the same charitable spirit as cards featuring Santa Claus, Christmas trees and blazing hearths. Either as art or religion they did not pretend to much. As Sculptor Moore himself remarked, without a sigh: "The great tradition of religious art seems to have got lost completely in the present day." What on earth had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gifts for God | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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