Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorials. Under Editor Draper the Digest published signed contributions on current affairs, staff-written articles based on newspaper news. Here & there Editor Draper whipped up leads to sound like breathless Floyd Gibbons: "This is Chapter 1-in epitome -of the Roosevelt regime. And what a chapter! What a regime!" Beyond these mutations, however, Traditionalist Draper bogged down in Tradition for fair. Circulation, which once had risen close to 1,500,000, dwindled steadily,* to the great dismay of Publisher Robert Joseph Cuddihy, 72, who had been with the Digest all his life. Last week Editor Draper announced his resignation. Cause...
Noting with satisfaction that "livestock that was on short rations is again feeding on green pastures,' the Department of Agriculture wrote: "By borrowing where they could, using Government loans and seeds so far as available and keeping their tractors chugging far beyond the usual hours of labor [farmers in the drought area] and their families have planted acreages of spring wheat, oats, barley and flax that seemed impossible three months...
...hopes of peace. Last week readers who recalled his powerful War novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, found Author Zweig's short stories cut in the same essential pattern as his longer and more ambitious work, read of humble people who were destroyed or demoralized by events beyond their control or understanding, who sometimes attempted a brief resistance, but more often submitted hopelessly to fate. Most of Author Zweig's tales ring true, contain sharp characterizations that make up for his occasional sentimental philosophizing...
...William Ellery Leonard, 59, longtime Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; and Grace Golden, 26, graduate student, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. In his autobiography, The Locomotive God, Professor Leonard described and analyzed the fears which for a quarter of a century have prevented his traveling beyond the phobic barriers of his home and the six blocks surrounding it. He was divorced last year by his second wife who, after 20 years of marriage, charged "cruel and inhuman treatment by means other than physical violence...
...takes many liberties with the conventions of sentimental fiction: 1) in showing Elizabeth clinging to her lover despite her regret at the pain she caused her husband; 2) going on with her plans to remarry despite her agony at her son's disapproval of her course; 3) living beyond the usual happy ending of remarriage and accepting her quota of human doubts and regrets...