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...greatly pleased with "The Propaganda Pilgrims" [TIME, Sept. 27]. I happen to be witness to the fact that in 1924 the Soviet border was completely closed and that no pilgrimage was allowed. A few years later (1928-30), the mosques were either torn down or used for different purposes. The clergy was liquidated or sent to Siberia; so 40 million Mohammedans in the Soviet Union were forced to do their worshiping secretly . . . During World War II, Russia pretended to show the free world that the Mohammedan behind the Iron Curtain had religious freedom. But this was utterly false according...
...emergency always grave, what is left for those words to do by themselves?" ¶ The Superfluous Adverb: e.g., definitely harmful, irresistibly reminded, or literally (as in the news report that Mr. Gladstone "sat literally glued to the Treasury Bench," to which Punch once added: " 'That's torn it,' said the Grand Old Man, as he literally wrenched himself away to dinner"). ¶ Verbosity in Verbs: e.g., is not prepared to, is not in a position to, does not see his way to. Warns Sir Ernest: "To be told that the Minister is 'not in a position...
Reminders of Hitler. West German clerics have roundly condemned the new rulings. Said a spokesman for the Evangelical Church in Germany: "We are reminded of events in Hitler days, when families were torn apart because children were used as instruments against their own parents." Petrusblatt, official organ of Berlin's Roman Catholic diocese, hotly condemned the new code as "contrary to Christian belief . . . 'Equality' in the East zone doesn't respect woman as a human being but only as a working machine." Last week, at the risk of bringing Red reprisals down on their heads, East...
...heady pages of historical novels, readers can be led on the straightest of fictional lines, past drawn sword and torn corsage, to the very bosom of the past. This fall's crop of historicals, ranging from Periclean Greece to 19th century North Africa, has everything the customers like, including a little history, but not too much...
Harvard Stadium, which in the past has seen its wooden goalposts torn down after each football game at a weekly cost of $75, will greet plunder-bent students this fall with a pair of new steel posts designed to remain standing indefinitely...