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The Human Possibility. Trilling also pays his respects to Novelist Forster's "attachment to tradition. . . . Most of us, consciously or unconsciously, are discontented with the nature rather than with the use of the human faculty; deep in our assumption lies the hope and the belief that humanity will end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forster and the Human Fact | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

"A (Browder ante): To pile up profits for the capitalists and red herrings for the discontented populace.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Discontented radio listeners everywhere could take heart last week from the story of big, deliberate William Grynwich, a music lover in the War Department in Washington, D.C. For a year on his favorite radio program, the Symphony Hour over Washington's WINX, he patiently suffered the inanities of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: WINX's Grynwich | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

>-"The great mass of discontented Italians . . . would rise up. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Il Duce's Volcano | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

In spite of all these services, New York City parents are notoriously discontented with their schools, year by year have moved in greater numbers to the suburbs for the express purpose of escaping from a colossus too big for its own good.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: P. S. Centenary | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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