1951

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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Brooks Atkinson

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Topic

Decline of democracy War Democracy

Author

Brooks Atkinson

Source

Once Around the Sun

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Atkinson, Brooks. Once Around the Sun. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951.

The sea lies all about us. The commerce of all lands must cross it. The very winds that move over the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at least return to the sea—to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Rachel Carson

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Topic

Ocean and sea

Author

Rachel Carson

Source

The Sea Around Us

Genre

Nature writing Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Carson, Rachel. The Sea Around Us. Oxford University Press, 1951, pt. 3.

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

Security

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Topic

Taking risks

Author

Hunter S. Thompson

Source

Security The Spectator

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Thompson, Hunter S. “Security.” The Spectator, 1951.

Some of my best friends are white boys.
When I meet 'em
I treat 'em
just the same as if they was people.

Ray Durem

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Topic

Race relations

Author

Ray Durem

Source

Broadminded

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Durem, Ray. Broadminded. c. 1951.

Art is born of humiliation.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Sources of art Art

Speaker

W.H. Auden

Source

World Within World

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Auden, W. H. Quoted in World Within World, by Stephen Spender. Hamish Hamilton/Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951.

Style is not something applied. It is something inherent, something that permeates.

Wallace Stevens

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Topic

Style

Speaker

Wallace Stevens

Source

Two or Three Ideas

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stevens, Wallace. "Two or Three Ideas." 28 Apr. 1951, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA. Speech.

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Paul Tillich

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Topic

Facing death The human condition

Speaker

Paul Tillich

Source

The Courage to Be

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tillich, Paul. "The Courage to Be." 1950-1951, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

Tillich, Paul. The Courage to Be. Yale University Press, 2014.

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Topic

Aliens

Author

Arthur C. Clarke

Source

The Sentinel

Medium

Short story

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Clarke, Arthur C. "Sentinel of Eternity." Ten Story Fantasy. Avon Periodicals, 1951.

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every court house, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

Learned Hand

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Topic

Intellectual humility Questioning one's beliefs

Speaker

Learned Hand

Source

Morals in Public Life

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hand, Learned. "Morals in Public Life." Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. 28 June 1951, Washington, DC, USA. Testimony.

Time has too much credit... It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Topic

Effects of time Healing

Author

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Source

Darkness and Day

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Darkness and Day. David & Charles/Alfred A. Knopf, 1951, ch. 7.

I consider your crime worse than murder... Who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal, you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country.

Irving R. Kaufman

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Topic

Treason Cold War

Speaker

Irving R. Kaufman

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Kaufman, Irving R. Remarks sentencing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for espionage of atomic bomb secrets. 5 Apr. 1951, New York, NY, USA.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Theodor Adorno

Minima Moralia

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Topic

Exile Writing

Author

Theodor Adorno

Source

Minima Moralia

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

Current Citation

Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Tennessee Williams

The Timeless World of a Play

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Topic

Relentlessness of time

Author

Tennessee Williams

Source

The Timeless World of a Play The New York Times

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Williams, Tennessee. "The Timeless World of a Play." The New York Times, 14 Mar. 1951.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

A Streetcar Named Desire

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Topic

Magic

Speaker

Blanche DuBois

Actor

Vivien Leigh

Source

A Streetcar Named Desire

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Elia Kazan. Warner Bros., 1951.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. It is a story which otherwise has yet to be told and which no American is prepared to hear.

James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

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Topic

Black music Race relations

Author

James Baldwin

Source

Notes of a Native Son

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Baldwin, James. "Many Thousands Gone." Partisan Review, Nov. 1951 - Dec. 1951.

Current Citation

Baldwin, James. "Many Thousands Gone." James Baldwin: Collected Essays, edited by Toni Morrison. Library of America, 1998.

Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

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Topic

Agency Personal responsibility Life

Author

Grandma Moses

Source

Grandma Moses: My Life's History

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Grandma Moses. Grandma Moses: My Life's History, edited by Otto Kallir. Harper & Brothers, 1951.

It's a pity you don't have as much charm as you have persistence.

An American in Paris

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Topic

Charm Persistence

Speaker

Lise Bouvier

Actor

Leslie Caron

Source

An American in Paris

Medium

Film

Genre

Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

An American in Paris. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951.

What we are doing in Korea is this: we are trying to prevent a third world war.

Harry Truman

Explaining why he had fired General Douglas MacArthur.

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Topic

Korean War Cold War

Speaker

Harry Truman

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Truman, Harry S. "Report to the American People on Korea." 11 Apr. 1951, Washington, DC, USA.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Theodor Adorno

Minima Moralia

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Topic

Underdogs

Author

Theodor Adorno

Source

Minima Moralia

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

Current Citation

Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

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Topic

Cooking Food

Author

Elizabeth David

Medium

Cookbook

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

David, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. John Lehmann, 1951, introduction.