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...Your article does help the rest of the country to know about conditions; it might even help to buck up farmers and ranchers who have had good rains and good crops but are complaining about the plight of agriculture. Maybe some of Mr. Wilhelm's philosophy, full of grit and fortitude, could by contrast make their lives seem a good deal brighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...along who, like Tho stein Veblen (The Theory of the Leisure Class), gives society a therapeutic, though not necessarily accurate, boot in the pants. But a few of them suffer from a rare though virulent occupational disease. They become hectoring critics of their fellow men. They scold. They even grit their teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Big Bad Americans | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half-breeds and Sioux . . . cut up into prairie lots by the boomers of kiting towns, now a farmers' market . . . but it was a world." To this world Cam brings not the ex-G.I. gripes of his bindlestiff buddies but pioneering grit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...either coarse animal desire or masochistic submission, or else love out of pity." In his readable, reasonable, slice-of-love-life study of the great Russian novelist, Author Slonim, Russian-born teacher and critic, documents this Freudian analysis in detail. Avoiding sweeping generalizations, Slonim suggests that some of the grit in the oyster of Dostoevsky's genius was put there by women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Life of a Genius | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Lilacs and Portals, by one of the "bad boys" of the '20s, Carl Ruggles (played by the Juilliard String Orchestra), are handsome but dated experiments in sound combinations. Since Columbia can hardly expect to show a profit on this series anyway, it seems a shame it does not grit its worthy teeth and bring out at least a few samples of really controversial music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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