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Thus they walked beyond the town. "A small stone quarry, deserted and bleak, lay quite near to a still completely urban house. . . . Now they loosened their hold of K., who stood waiting dumbly, took oft their top hats and wiped the sweat from their brows with pocket handkerchiefs, meanwhile surveying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tragic Sense of Life | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Harvardevens Village, the spanking new home for 400 students and their families, isn't an overstuffed cherry bowl. Nor is, it for that matter, a thorny crown which the University is pressing on the brows of its married veterans. Being no exception to the rule on contentious subjects, the truth...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Harvardevens, Livable but Expensive, Shapes Up as Real Community | 10/18/1946 | See Source »

The Green Years (MGM) is one of those genteel and interminable stories of "character," "conflict" and "faith" which invariably impress lower-middle-brows as "big," "heartwarming" and, above all, "human."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

There was no fuss or picketing. The mighty U.M.W., long since as disciplined as a squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Flick of an Eyebrow | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

In life, as in death, Tai Li had been a partner of secrecy and violence. He was a legend-to his enemies, an Oriental Himmler, Plehve and Torquemada combined; to his friends, a ruthless but righteous patriot. Even Tai Li's age was unknown; he was "about" 50. His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Generalissimo's Man | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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