Word: fragmented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Communists have captured the great propaganda citadel of "a united Germany"-while the West has been frantically building what is called even officially "a state fragment." West Germans don't want Communism, but they do want a united Germany. The Communists say they can deliver that. Some German conservatives listen to them. From the Soviet zone, these weeks, comes a steady stream of political marriage brokers promising, like Christian Democrat Leader Otto Nuschke, "to bring the Russian zone as a splendid dowry in marriage with West Germany...
...choice of sin by a middling good little man and notes his exhilaration after making it. A fifth, written last year, is called The Hint of an Explanation and deals briefly with the same theological theme as The Heart of the Matter. Besides these, there is a fragment of a novel written in 1936 (he gave it up, wisely, to write Brighton Rock), in which the author intended to use the West African locale later picked as the scene of The Heart of the Matter...
...artificial enchanted garden in which a rather nervous and overbred young lady trembled in a "trance of sensuous receptivity." Though brilliantly done, her first poems were excessively, lushly contrived. But as her work developed, another Edith Sitwell emerged, sensitive to human waste and moral agonies. In a play fragment which suggests something of Greek tragedy, she wrote such grandly simple lines as these...
...different kinds of Who's Who reposing in TIME Inc.'s morgue (i.e., "library of essential information") are a constant and reliable journalistic source of biographical facts-and a bulwark against the uproar occasioned when we misspell somebody's name. These are only a fragment, however, of the 29,000 reference books I find we now have in the morgue* for the convenience of TIME'S editors, who call for them at the rate of about 500 a week-plus an average 40 or 50 that have to be obtained from local libraries...
This not necessarily pertinent information is a fragment of the mountainous residue of facts left over from The Big Bonanza, TIME'S cover story on Mayor O'Dwyer and his New York City in the June 7 issue. All of us here at TIME who have to live and work in the city and its environs were very much interested in what the story had to say and, judging from the volume of incoming mail, so were a great many TIME readers elsewhere...