Word: facet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost indiscriminately, with complete good will and inexhaustible curiosity, Eleanor Roosevelt looked at every facet of English life. No one was any longer the least bit surprised where she turned up. In the tiny Kentish village of Barham, the proud members of the pig war club informed her that their chubbiest, pinkest piglet was named Franklin. Holding Franklin, who is being fattened even more for a Christmas raffle, Mrs. Roosevelt said soberly: "I shall tell my husband that I've seen...
Canadians are going into battle again. When & where is one facet of the Great Secret (see p. 29). But the news that Canadians will be in the vanguard of invasion is freshening and heartening to a world which needs good news...
Songs of Vienna (Lotte Lehmann, soprano; Columbia; 6 sides). Mistress of lieder, opera star, novelist. Lotte Lehmann shows another facet of her versatile genius in her intimate, heartfelt singing of these light nostalgic songs of Europe's onetime musical capital...
James Thurber and Elliot Nugent, in addition to a gift for epigrammatic turns of phrase and scintillating repartee, have that ability which Sinclair Lewis has shown in his better novels--the ability to take people, exploit their every characteristic facet until they are a group of caricatures, but create caricatures which are exaggerated only enough to make them more vivid and real and not so much as to make them meretricious and ridiculous...
Kierkegaard's literary method was to invent characters, let them work out their ways of life, publish their "diaries" and "memoirs." Stages on Life's Way gleams brilliantly as character after character cuts a new facet on that indestructible gem, love between man & woman. Part I is a memoir of a wine-sodden banquet where a gay seducer, a fashion stylist, a cynic, etc. discourse on follies of woman and love. Theirs is life's esthetic stage. The ethical is explored in Part II by a happily married essayist. "Yes, it is true, no poet will ever...