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The Rear-Guard Action. After Bentham, Marx-and the 19th century was marked by the long period of conservative decline. Through it, the conservatives maintained their rear-guard action: Coleridge, brilliantly insisting that society was losing its soul because it was fascinated by means, forgetful of ends; ("Men, I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Generation to Generation | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Among Martine's previewers was a church group who reported to Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, archbishop of Lyon. Wrote the cardinal in his religious weekly: "The lowly and licentious film entitled Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie . . . is a scandalous display of vice." On church doors throughout France Caroline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Cardinal & Caroline | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

A new cabinet was formed by the Nationalist Party's Dr. Wilopo. No Communist, Wilopo promised to stop the drift to the West, and prepared the way for the country's first general election. In the prevailing climate of anti-Western opinion, the Communists drew the left wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Children of the East | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Last week the question of right prompted widespread misgivings, based largely on the fear that truce-on the most lenient terms the U.N. has yet offered-might turn out in fact to be victory for the Communists. Fearful of impending advantages for the Communists in Asia, the Senate Appropriations Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Painful Question | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Furthermore, stocks in the average were yielding 5% interest v. a low of 1.9% when the 1929 bull market ended. And the market was buoyed by the realization that after two decades of Government suspicion, hostility and harassment, U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Brave Bulls | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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