Word: considerations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I single out this precious item because, speaking as a writer and a Roman Catholic, I consider Mr. Waugh the most interesting of contemporary authors from the first standpoint, and the very deadliest from the second . . .
They were nothing but punks-callow, sullen, foul-mouthed youths. Tuberculous, bespectacled Johnny West was 22; he had a thin, bony body, a big nose, a girl's mouth, and a mind as weak and erratic as a bat's. Stocky, thick-lipped Robert Daniels was 24; there...
The man who gave 20th Century music its biggest shock seemed to have abruptly turned his back on his times, and gone back beyond Bach. "It was wrong to consider me a revolutionary," he says. "All I did was a few inventions."
At Coblenz, German leaders met last week to consider proposals for a Western German state (TIME, June 14). The plan was a keystone in the dike against Communism which the U.S. is trying to build. Allied officials had feared that the Germans would stall or get bogged down in squabbles...
Some political parties might consider a crashing defeat at the polls a good excuse for taking a back seat for a while. Finland's Communists, made of sterner stuff -and with sterner bosses-were more than willing to deny themselves that luxury. It would be downright unpatriotic, suggested Communist...