Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quack or genius, Roerich led a busy life that brushed against Eternal Krishna the Regenerator-and the ferrets of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue; against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his...
For Mme. Miville-Dechêne, it was a busy and wonderful season-but an expensive one. She had spent $50 on Noël for food alone, would spend as much again on le jour de Van. But she was philosophic : "C'est cher. Mais c'est...
Manhattan last week might be proud of its "three miles of Christmas trees" along Park Avenue, but that pagan procession of lights was dim and chill compared with the magnificence of the Nativity Plays which almost every Renaissance Italian witnessed. Machiavelli mentions one so elaborate that its preparation kept all...
Speaking Swords. Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, in Cairo last week to keep an eye on League proceedings, said: "When the sword speaks, everything else must be silent." In Palestine his Arab organization was busy recruiting volunteers. At Lifta, a village near Jerusalem, Arab leader Sheilah Hasan...
Vital Ingredient. In a busy lifetime, Burton Rascoe, Manhattan critic and literary Pooh-Bah, had been called a lot of other things, but never an economist. In his latest book of reminiscences, We Were Interrupted (Doubleday; $4), he pays his respects to the craft. His conclusion: "Economics is, by and...