Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China and Japan must not be directly controlled after the war," said Professor Holcombe. "We must modify our aims by recognizing the Oriental point of view and allowing friendly liberal governments to develop there by themselves...
...most promising of the year's new writers were Maritta M. Wolff and Eudora Welty. Miss Wolff's Whistle Stop ($2.50) was written with thumbs and overrated, but some passages showed an insight and a swift intensity which can develop into a good novelist. Miss Welty's A Curtain of Green ($2.50) showed brilliance of a sort which seems best likely to crystallize in small forms. A far greater talent than either of these, but also farther from crystallized, was revealed...
...previous blows of which had been struck directly opposite Moscow, he skirted south of the hard core of resistance at Tula to drive straight east as far as Skopin; then cut south of another hard core at Kalinin to drive east to Dmitrov. His intention seemed to be to develop a huge encirclement of the capital...
...Greene "socializes" his patients with parties, games and plays. They are given simple, mechanical tasks to develop muscular coordination, are also taught to speak into a microphone, for it serves as a focus of attention. As soon as a patient enters the hospital, he is given a complete physical examination and recordings are made of his speech so he can gauge his progress. A new clinic to study the brain wave patterns of stutterers will soon be opened in the hospital...
...Reading Poems (Oxford; $2.75) is as remarkably all-of-a-piece an anthology as has ever been compiled. It is edited by two American professors of English, Wright Thomas (Wisconsin) and Stuart Gerry Brown (Grinnell), and is "intended, in general, for anyone who wishes to develop the skills needed in the intelligent reading of poems . . . rather than the history of poetry." All of its poems, whether written by Shakespeare or Spender, Milton or MacNeice, conspire to show what noble, or at the least persuasive, music words can make. Its critical discussions are written with an excess of the subsidized self...