Word: antagonist
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...without the slightest trace of malice or partisanship, Lewis Mumford has displayed a unique capacity for sensing and understanding the advanced thought, the advanced craftsmanship of his time, reconciling its contradictions in a persuasive synthesis. Shrewd observers ticket Mumford as the type of the New Liberal, find his typical antagonist in Old Liberal Walter Lippmann, who last autumn offered his version of The Good Society (TIME, Sept. 27). Old liberals and new liberals will differ as to which is the greater realist...
...first work of fiction to tempt comparison with Middletown in Transition. On the surface Author White's Main Street still looks much as it did in Main Street and Babbitt. Like Sinclair Lewis. Author White gives no solution for Main Street's inhibiting culture, offers no antagonist capable of creating a better one. But Author White's novel carries an undercurrent, nowhere found in Lewis' books, of those acute undersurface tensions detected by the Lynds...
...youngest of the Biddle brothers, Sydney, a Philadelphia psychiatrist. Absent is the eldest brother, Moncure ("Monk") Biddle. An investment broker, he alone of the four upholds the tradition of their ancestor, Nicholas Biddle, who was president of the Bank of the United States and Andrew Jackson's great antagonist (and incidentally the first benefactor of the Pennsylvania Academy). Commissioned by Brother Francis, the painting was done during the hottest part of last July, which is why "they all look sort of droopy," as Mrs. Francis Biddle...
...simplest terms the play is a struggle between a communist and a liberal or unreactionary conservative, as you prefer, for the possession ultimately of the world, intermediately of America, and immediately of a woman. A trifling playboy enters into the picture, too, but he is not an antagonist. It is not thought that he may inherit the earth some day. The best that can be said for him is said by the liberal: the latter is willing to gave even him, for his chivalry and his generosity, rather than see the communist triumph...
...South, where living conditions and wage rates are lower than in the North, was cast by nature in the role of antagonist to wage-&-hour legislation. Hence last week's fight was conducted mainly along sectional lines. Leaders of the opposition were Sam McReynolds of Chattanooga, who predicted that the Bill would "put the life and death struggle of industry in the hands of Madam Perkins," and Martin Dies of Orange, Tex. who said: "Let me ask you boys from the North this. . . . Why have you set yourselves up as arbiters to undertake to say to us that...