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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the same interview system that gives this book strength and color also makes it something less than an impartial work. Mr. Alinsky, who is a long-time acquaintance of Lewis, tends to over-emphasize his central character at the expense of the other men with whom the founder of...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: 'Something of a Man' | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

I was on Okinawa when Yamashita was on trial . . . The reports we received of the trial convinced me beyond doubt that Yamashita was a general who was doing his duty, completely ignorant and innocent of the murderous actions of his troops, and strangely similar in character and actions to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

I think it is obvious that questions like these could be asked endlessly. The point is that the major part of the answer is already apparent. Harvard does not and cannot train the "whole man." It can only try to channel the into pursuits that will benefit them while they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Council and the 'Whole Man' | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

In his new play, "The Rat Race," Garson Kanin has made use of some of the ingredients that have made his "Born Yesterday" the huge success it continues to be. And his central character shares many of the same cultural attitudes of Miss Billie ("Drop dead") Dawn. Unfortunately, however, this...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

Once in a while, the old Faulkner power comes through in a blaze of language, an original phrase (a gangster has "a face like a shaved wax doll"), or an insight into rural character. But except for Tomorrow, an effective account of how the family loyalties of a poor-white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yoknapatawpha Sherlock | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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