Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Disinflation note: In Denver, a loaf of bread cost...
...Bread & Beer Alone. Consequently, Communism (or any similar manifestation) cannot be stopped in the long run either by diplomacy, wealth or war, though McGuire thinks all three may have to be applied as intermediate measures. The West can stand against Communism only if it will put its own house in order-an order that will end the insane fissions of industrial civilization. The West's moral community must be renewed...
...Somehow," McGuire pleads, "we must come to understand that morality is really essential to the solution of major problems. Community cannot be founded on negatives: on fear or some temporary alignment . . . Man, even in his work, does not live by bread alone . . . His nature is not wholly filled or expressed in the production and consumption of bread and beer and radio sets and patent medicines. He has not his answer or his end in these. They cannot ease his discontent...
...loud praise from a few critics, softer praise from some better ones. He is certainly one of the most talented writers lately out of school, but his future would look wider if he could break away from the overripe magnolia and do more work on bread & meat material. His publishers, who have been selecting rather tender jacket photographs with which to publicize him, could help, too, by respecting his youth instead of exploiting...
Ghosts to Frighten. How quickly Davy did, and how painfully Sam Johnson had to struggle for his bread, is the story Margaret Barton undertakes to tell. The book is one more in the succession of works on Johnson and his circle, many of them no doubt stimulated by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Isham's astonishingly successful search for missing Johnson and Boswell manuscripts since World War I (TIME, Nov. 29). Miss Barton's book is highly readable biography in its own right and one of those solid English performances as thick and tasty as an English pudding...