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Harried Capital. As brisk, top-of-the-mind journalism, The Grand Design is fun. Dos Passos has fixed his sights on New Deal Washington, located its telltale landmarks: harried officials, their minds cross-grained with idealism and opportunism; ascetic lunches, reflecting the prevalence of ulcers; gaps of hollow loneliness between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Rebellion to Doubt | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

When Lester Furnival saw her husband vanish into thin air before her eyes, she thought at first that he must be a ghost. Then she realized that she was one. For a while, Lester and her sniveling girl friend Evelyn (they had been killed by the same crashing plane) were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theological Thriller | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Keep On Working. Merton's autobiography charts the gradual transformation of a worldly young pagan into a Roman Catholic ascetic. Most of its final hundred pages are a striking description of the life he now leads at the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The severe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mystics Among Us | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

On the whole, Dale Carnegie seems to have made a deeper impression on Thakin Nu than the stern tenets of Marxism. Nu tells a little story to explain his attitude. "The rebels," he says, "remind me of an actor playing the tiger in the famous Burmese drama Mai U. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Yogi v. Commissars | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

For nearly 300 years, Laval University had been almost as grim and ascetic as its founder, François de Montmorency-Laval de Montigny, first bishop of Quebec. The bishop wore a hair shirt, watered his soup, slept on wood. The university, which De Laval started as a seminary in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: The New Laval | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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