Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...levity, it was easily assumed that the first quality stemmed from Luce and the second from Hadden. As Elson shows, that explanation is too simple. Luce had his share of irreverence, which he encouraged or at least permitted in his magazines; Hadden, on the other hand, was deeply serious beneath his frivolous exterior. They were both earnest about the need to inform America...
When TIME was already a fairly important magazine, Luce did not consider it beneath his dignity to appear at a businessmen's lunch and stage a quiz game to demonstrate the importance of accurate information. Later he was to write that the "invention" involved in TIME lay not in its brevity or in its principle of organizing the news but in its emphasis on the "instructive role of journalism." Still later, in early 1939, when he was displeased with the magazine, he complained: "Somehow it does not give the feel of being desperately, whimsically, absurdly, cockeyedly, whole-souledly determined...
...voice never varies a hemisemidemiquaver from the written notes. In the exuberant comic numbers, person and impersonator coincide. But when Julie attempts a bittersweet ballad, like Do, Do, Do or My Ship, the styles collide. Lawrence always suggested a melancholy sensuality; Andrews continually gives the feeling that beneath the lyrics, everything is just supercal-if r agilisticexpialidocious...
...tanned youthful bodies on the beach at Algiers, he accepts the natural renewal that argues against myths and fickle gods: "One can find a certain moderation as well as a constant excess in the strained and violent faces of these people, in this summer sky emptied of tenderness, beneath which all truths can be told and on which no deceitful divinity has traced the signs of hope or redemption. Between this sky and the faces turned toward it there is nothing on which to hang a mythology, a literature, an ethic, or a religion-only stones, flesh, stars, and those...
...Beneath this is Their unfailing tendency to see Woman lurking behind every individual and to define Woman exclusively as a sexual being. They don't like women to deviate from preconception, and when women do threaten to leap the boundaries their achievements are either discounted or attributed to some mysterious quality of femininity. At one point Mrs. Ellmann quotes an article on Sylvia Plath...