Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Babel to Eden. In quiet Havana, distant from the main stream of events, 53 nations last week signed and tossed into history's lap a weighty compact. Typically, the nations' delegates were apt to speak not of "free trade," but of "freer trade." In the smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade...
...equestrian Sherman on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the Chicago Lincoln, Boston's Shaw Memorial, and the memorial figure of grief in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery, beneath which Henry Adams now lies buried with his wife, all show Saint-Gaudens' size. Critics are apt to regard his art, like Rodin's, as more pictorial than sculptural-it looks modeled rather than molded, and seems to hold some of the softness of clay. But it is art which exerts a grip on millions of imaginations...
...dogs that suggest the means by which Hitler dominated Europe, thick smoke arising from the crematoria and torture chambers of the "flaying-hut," and the plaguelike spread of the Chief Ranger's "glow worm" agents. The total effect of these literary devices is to suggest a far more apt portrait of Hitlerism than any conventionally realistic novel could provide...
...Joseph Ignace Guillotin) investigated Mesmer and declared that his theories were unscientific. But the experiments went on. A later Viennese physician, Sigmund Freud, experimented for a while with electricity and hypnotism, and then abandoned hypnotism for his own techniques of psychoanalysis. He reasoned that a patient under hypnosis is apt to say what the physician wants him to say instead of revealing his "unconscious" mind. Besides, Freud decided, hypnotism's effects are too ephemeral and not everybody can be hypnotized...
...that Kay Boyle's novels so often disappoint? She has a glittering style that seizes the reader and carries him away at a nervous quickstep. But when the reader drops exhausted at the end, he is apt to feel more cheated than rewarded. Her tense characters are whipped by urgencies too violent for the problems they face; and as people, they don't stand a chance of survival between the same covers with Author Boyle's high-tension, consuming prose...