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Bernard Shaw, despairing of any serious communication with his age, tried clowning to convey his belief that 20th-century man must change or nature would supersede him as she had the dinosaurs. Thomas Hardy, unable to conceive that the world in which he found himself could have been created by a conscious Power, saw evidences of "the coming universal wish not to live." Such is the cultural background of modern man's moral fears. It is also the cultural background of Author de Sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dimensions of the War. | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

What the country needed, Mr. Roosevelt announced briskly, was a name for its war. The thought the name should convey: a struggle to preserve the democracies and the small people of the world. "War With the Axis Powers," which someone suggested, was too long. The President did not like "Second World War," "World War II." Not enough zip, Mr. Roosevelt declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unnamed War | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...Ireland also had their innings. For them, as well as the home front the Army put Secretary of War Stimson, Lieut. General Lesley McNair, commander of the Army Ground Force, and the commanders of the four U.S. home armies on the air. Their soldierly words, though guarded, managed to convey a reassuring outline of the growing U.S. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Calling All Fronts | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Morale officer Captain John B. Gibbons, Jr. '26 is sending a convey of two Army trucks and four reconnaissance care to convey the Pi Eta contingency to the training camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 3/10/1942 | See Source »

With the first public performance of "Blonds for Defense" scheduled for March 18 at Fort Devens, Pi Eta expects a special caravan of Army truckz to convey cast and sets to the training camp. The musical revue, directed by Paul Anderson with the book by David J. Conroy, will be shown in Cambridge March 19 through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zorina Rehearses Chorines at Pi Eta | 3/6/1942 | See Source »

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