Word: formative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murder mysteries are all the same, and the only way to judge them is to evaluate their treatment. There is nothing in the format of a who-dunit which will make a good film or be anything other than a common-place. But the producers of Sleep My Love have taken such a common-place tale and by skillful directing, acting, and photography turned it into a neat suspenseful package...
...unpublished love letters of Mark Twain; excerpts from the notebooks of Henry James; part of a new novel by John P. Marquand; articles by George Bernard Shaw, Budd Schulberg, Sumner Welles, Sir Richard Livingstone.* To show off these prizes to better advantage, the Atlantic had freshened up its format, run its first four-color cover and had its type face lifted by topnotch Typographer W. A. Dwiggins...
...young Marxists* who founded the Review in 1934, hoped for an increase in circulation too. Including its new London edition (TIME, March 10), Partisan Review sells only 7,600 copies, at 60?. Now the editors hope to hit 20,000 in the U.S. and Europe. A slightly larger format, more art work (in color) and photographs, regular departments on music, art and the theater, and "letters" from Europe's capitals may help. But Phillips and Rahv plan to keep the Review uncompromisingly a magazine for what it considers the "intelligentsia," will not desert its long-standing partisanship of "radical...
...format of Radditudes has been improved over the last issue, especially in the case of a very fine-looking title page. There are two cartoons and four incidental drawings. The drawings are reasonably good, if uninspired, but the cartoons don't seem to belong. A couple of letters to the editors are perhaps the most amusing part of the magazine. One, from a Cliffedweller named Annabelle Freud, complains subtly about the murderous crew of characters in the stories of the last issue. Happily, the editors have taken her advice...
Like all section courses, English A stands or falls on the instructor. The format has not changed in decades. Attached to the twice-weekly section meetings is reading, often interesting in itself, but determined more by the predilection of the section man than by a logical scheme. Marking, also, is highly individualistic. The tendency is not to mark papers too high, but to undervalue them. If the instructor is really able, the most useful part of English A lies in the conferences, devoted to individual problems, which again depends with the instructor...