Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew up in the school of daily journalism before it was the fashion to qualify names used in news stories with derogatory designations. In your piece on the recent visit of a group of Protestant clergymen to Yugoslavia [TIME, Aug. 25], you designated me as "anti-Roman Catholic editor of The Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler." The implications to any intelligent reader are obvious, to wit: that I am an enemy of the Roman Catholic religion; that I am a babe-in-the-woods in intelligence and ability as an observer; that though...
...Gentle Slope. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters largely as "a kind of penance," which his friends claim is his attitude toward all his Christian writings. He says he found it the easiest work he has ever done, but that it grew to be "a terrible bore." It was an immediate and phenomenal success on both sides of the Atlantic. Innumerable ministers quoted Screwtape in sermons and urged it on their congregations. Catholics enjoy it as much as Protestants. One clergyman makes a practice of presenting copies to his parishioners with passages marked for their special attention. To date, Screwtape...
...When I was a child," said Eugene Delacroix, "I was a Monster." In time the monster grew a mustache and became famous for his wit, his dandyism and his fierce, flamboyant art, which now fills one-third of the Louvre's 19th Century tier of honor. But Delacroix's leaping, flesh-tearing lions, burning cities, shipwrecks and hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery...
...debunkers gone too far? What if the generation after next grew up without ever hearing about John Smith and Pocahontas or even George Washington and the cherry tree? The possibility bothered Richard E. Thursfield, who used to be a history teacher and now teaches "education" at Johns Hopkins. Last week, in an essay in The Study and Teaching of American History (The National Council for the Social Studies; $2.50), Thursfield called for a modern Bulfinch to write an American Age of Fable...
...best part of the Memoir is a critical account of the comfortable Quaker society of Wilmington, Del., where young Canby grew up at the end of the century. He describes this setting nostalgically-the leafy interpenetration of country and town, the sense of neighborhoods, the wide lawns, iron stags and idiosyncratic architecture. As for the way people lived, he says: "I believe that there were values in that period called the nineties and scandalously misdescribed in current films and novels, which were as worthy (greatness aside) as any cultural period has ever developed, and which are now lost, perhaps irrevocably...