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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many a critic condemned U. S. policy as too plodding. Many more thought it saddled the U. S. with moral commitments that it could not fulfill, or could fulfill only by an expenditure of blood and treasure out of all proportion to the gain. How could the many Governments in exile be restored to power? How could Hitler be overthrown without a U. S. expeditionary force? Colonel Lindbergh asked: What plan did the U. S. have for making itself effective in Europe? Other isolationist writers put a sharper question: How could supplying Britain with the "tools" do more than prolong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grand Strategy | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Mentioned by one prominent local critic as "the most promising literary artist to have passed through Harvard since T. S. Eliot, "The Gid" is best known for his ventures into musical comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gidding Will Produce Second Drama of Network Series | 3/26/1941 | See Source »

Guests of the Class of 1944 tonight, and acting as critic of the various skits in their review, will be John C. Robbins '42, president of the CRIMSON, and Vic Ehler, janitor of Mathews Hall. scold yzinlhP president of the Lampoon will be an assistant critic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings' Own Musical Review To Dramatize Six-Month Career | 3/22/1941 | See Source »

Died. Pitts Sanborn, 61, music critic for the New York World-Telegram and dean of Manhattan music reviewers, program annotator for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society, author of two novels and many books on music, radio commentator and authority on opera; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Milton and His Modern Critics is a little (87-page) book by a critic whom people are beginning to read more & more, about a poet whom people have been reading less & less. Had Milton known that Logan Pearsall Smith would one day defend him, he would probably have cried again: "Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd Saints." A defense by the dilettante author of Trivia, More Trivia and All Trivia could seem scarcely less incongruous to the author of Paradise Lost than the Restoration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Milton Agonistes | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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