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All the wheels-within-wheels complications of war, love and treachery would have stalled a clumsy novelist. But Novelist Waltari is anything but clumsy. Dramatically and lavishly, he paints in the spectacular background-the campfires of the approaching Turks lining the night horizon, the arrival of their army ("a huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decline & Fall | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Another hedging issue of the Daughters is the United Nations. In 1948, they sprawled across a widening chasm, expressing indefatigable opposition to world government and unfailing support for the UN. But the passing years solidified their view point, and 1953 brought a demand that the United Nations should "be taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fellow Immigrants | 5/8/1953 | See Source »

Widening Gap. Instead of relieving the downward trend of Israel's inflated economy, last year's devaluation intensified it. Devaluation cut the value of the currency enough so that domestic prices rose sharply, but not enough to give Israeli products a competitive chance in foreign markets. Result: instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Back to the Wall | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

In the matter-of-fact tone of a chronicler, she sped through the early lines, told how she, Medea, had lavished her love on her husband Jason, only to have him leave her for another woman. Gradually, with ever-widening vocal leaps and roller-coaster plunges, she worked up to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Thoughtful Mezzo | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

In restless South Africa, where a stern and self-righteous government is deliberately widening the gulf between races, violent passions were producing more & more violent demands. Nationalist Prime Minister Daniel Malan last week asked for dictatorial emergency powers from Parliament.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Justice in South Africa | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

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