Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he died at 62 (TIME, March 20, 1944), Popularizer Van Loon left this fragment of an autobiography. He began it, he said, partly as a response to letters from servicemen who wanted a plain account of "what this world is all about." Readers may get a few of Van Loon's notions on that subject in the avuncular Van Loon style (history as kiddy talk), but they will learn from this autobiography very little about Van Loon. It appears to have been designed for a leisurely, Montaignesque 700 pages and unfortunately ends just when it begins to warm...
...nature of sadism, masochism and homosexuality. His new novel, which he calls a "small morality tale," reads just like its predecessors, and claims to be about incest. In his introduction, Cain says: "I like it better than I usually like my work, and yet I have an impulse to account for it. ... The many fictions published about me recently bring me to the realization I must ... be less reticent about myself...
Alice Adams, besides, was probably Tarkington's best effort to tell "the truth and mystery of human nature." His account of Alice's emotions and behavior during a saunter down a street in spring, of her exhausting stratagems to avoid seeming snubbed at a dance, had a precision and pathos more than worthy of the writer whom Tarkington regarded as his master, William Dean Howells-almost worthy of Henry James. But why was this novel as a whole inferior to Howells, James or Edith Wharton, and why has Tarkington never been thought a strong figure among U.S. writers...
...talk to the Clevelanders and their fellow Americans came the Prime Minister of Italy, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian Minister to Paris, the head of France's second largest political party, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. At the Cleveland Institute James F. Byrnes delivered an account of his successful stewardship as Secretary of State in a critical year of U.'S. history. From the same platform Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg redefined U.S. foreign policy for the first time since becoming head of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...
...large as the total college enrollment of the nation, cannot be absorbed within present scholarship funds without reducing the average grant to an inadequate pittance, and the part-time job market in the typically small college community is already oversupplied. The presence or absence of 'ambition" does not account for wastage of almost a third of the potential undergraduate body of the nation...