Word: formlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...
...idea of migration, expatriation, or those deportations by which governments . . . snatch populations from their lands and homes ... the forsaking of healthy traditions and venerable customs ... the degradation of men in the humiliating status of a formless 'mass...
Honest History. Husky, grey-haired Walter Karig, 46, a veteran Washington correspondent, is now a Navy commander. He co-authored the first volume of Battle Report (TIME, Dec. 11), is now working on the second. His style is breezy, formless, effective. Like Sinclair Lewis' books, Lower than Angels is remarkable for its accumulation of commonplace social history, and for its unsparing honesty. It is sometimes little more than a catalogue of impressions, saved from tedium and pretentiousness by Karig's humor. Marvin Lang has all the characteristics of Babbitt. He is smug, ambitious, self-righteous, calculating. Unlike Babbitt...
...church, held no services. Small groups of admirers formed in different cities; Lebanese exiles circulated around him; circles of twelve poets each, appointed for life and acknowledging Gibran as master, were organized in New York, Damascus, Beirut. His poetry in Arabic was apparently more striking than his vague, formless lines in English would suggest...
...Into this well, recorded history goes only a little way, and not truth, but mystery, lies in its fathomless depths. Yet the myths of man are pious abbreviations reaching far deeper than his factual knowledge of events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar events, established itself among various peoples and produced that formation of coulisses which forever lures and leads onwards the traveler in time...