Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME's issue of Nov. 11 would not in itself merit this protest. But as one of a long series of tongue-in-cheek, let's-try-to-understand-these-poor-yokels pieces, it is one too many...
...delighted that TIME has not lost its sense of humor. The "tongue-in-cheek" way that TIME presents some of the problems of the world makes it more possible for one to consider them sanely; for, unlike most newspapers, TIME never becomes hysterical over any situation, no matter of what grave portent. If one accepts a crisis by looking for whatever humor that crisis may contain, one is surely more apt to reach a sensible, sane and logical conclusion...
...TIME have its editorial tongue in cheek when reporting "Playing the Angles" [Oct. 21]? Are . . . readers to assume that American citizens have become so completely demoralized that they must court dishonesty in a thriving black market, must lie, cheat and connive in their frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada...
...Arab side is given with understanding and perfunctoriness. Various shades of British opinion in Palestine are flashed, from outright anti-Semitism to militant pro-Zionism. And the Jews range from turn-the-other-cheek scholars to Stern Gang bomb heavers. In the end, Joseph, the hero, is converted to terrorism, but the conversion is not convincing...
...High point of the congress: when U.S. Negro singer (and leftist) Paul Robeson finished singing Song of the Fatherland, Soviet General Kozlov was so moved that he rushed to the rostrum and planted a kiss on Robeson's cheek...