Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other families were ripped apart. Mrs. William Mann and one of her daughters were among the Penman's employees who stayed on the job. Her son, Harold, and another daughter sided with the pickets, who jeered at old friends and relatives at the plant gates...
...entire horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear apart a popular song with fine abandon or imitate a female wine-taster getting drunk on the job. As an extra dividend, man & wife dance team Marge & Gower Champion foot their way featly through the hour...
President Strand, who had explained nothing about La Vallee, now considered the case closed. Actually, so far as Oregon State was concerned, it might be. All question of the Spitzer and La Vallee cases apart, U.S. citizens could understand the right of a university administrator to fire a teacher for professional incompetence. Did Communist Party membership lead to that kind of incompetence-by imposing a party line where there should be freedom to inquire? That was a big issue in the Washington case. Now, it seemed, U.S. public opinion, which had never decided for sure what academic freedom consisted...
Perhaps the most interesting selection in the magazine is John Snow's critique of "The Naked and The Dead." Snow manages to take apart the professional critics neatly and without an undue display of emotion, and then proceeds to point out the qualities of Mailer's novel which never occurred to those who typed him as a straight Dos Passos-Hemingway disciple. This is a considered review which stresses affirmative qualities in the novel unnoticed by most commentators...
Henry Cade was pushing 30, apparently only mildly restless in his second-drawer job at Vinnaver & Jaxon. Then he got his break: the syndicate rights to a rising young columnist named Wally Pohl. In return for the rights to "Pohl's Apart," V. & J. made Henry a full partner. Then Henry realized that "you could no more want a little success than you could want a little love ... To want less than everything was to get nothing...