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...coronation resembles what would happen if Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson were to come alive, and at an appointed hour drive down Fifth Avenue before the massed memberships of the DAR, SAR and American Legion. But America, lacking a living human being to sum up its history, can only grope at understanding what the Coronation means to the Commonwealth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Country, Not Queen | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Special emphasis lies on the word "fruitful" throughout the book since Conant looks upon science as a thing very much alive. He rejects the widely held conception that scientific method is a well ordered sifting and evaluation of facts. Instead it is a process in which human beings grope, often clumsily, toward an idea. He relates scientific investigation to life. No longer is it more test tube drama...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Conant and Common Sense | 2/28/1951 | See Source »

...Nymph. This between-the-sheets dialogue, involving an aging vampire and her rebellious gigolo, is one of many things in this novel that will cause admirers of Britain's Margaret Kennedy to grope for their shoes and steal away. In The Constant Nymph Author Kennedy showed that it was quite possible to write a bestseller that, though of no great breadth, was intelligent, sensitive to life and very likable. The Feast catches her with her literary standards down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stravinsky, Here I Come! | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...latest convenience is an artificial "moon," of amber and green shaded lights, that perches on a tall pole in the rear of the parking area, enabling patrons to grope their way to comfort stations and move their cars about without smashing fenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ozoners | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Just as they are about to leave the quaint fishing village for Paris and married love, Mitchum turns up from years of imprisonment, with a beard and more desire than both of them put together. A beautifully photographed fog promptly descends, through which the three principals grope, knife, shoot and shout their way toward a predictable ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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