Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prim these days. Last June, in a discussion of plans for receiving Hungary's Premier Lajos Dinnyes, Ana said: "I've heard Dinnyes likes to have girls presented to him. This won't happen in Bucharest; I don't approve of official assignations." Hungarian Communists, hurt by Ana's attitude, say that Comrade Dinnyes found his own girls without any help from Comrade Pauker...
...fiction editor of the New Yorker, he can make a room, a house, a whole town come to life without raising his voice. Nothing happens in Time Will Darken It that small-town readers won't immediately recognize as next-door truth, but what does happen (gossip, housework, dinner parties, childbearing) is conveyed sensitively, in clean and restrained prose. Time Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author...
With this desperate plea for the return to a scarcity economy, the matter rested this week. Karl Marx (who in a lifetime of research never came across a single shmoo) provides an inkling of what might yet happen. "Society . . . finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism . . . There is too much . . . means of subsistence . . . The productive forces at the disposal of society [i.e., the shmoos] no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property...
...says Brown, the thing is about to happen again. The ice in the Antarctic is getting thicker and heavier. The earth is wobbling. Soon the great slosh will come. Most of mankind will be drowned and the rest will enjoy new climates...
...Gunther, meets all the great people of the world; he races about the continent of Europe on secret missions for President Roosevelt, like Harry Hopkins and Robert D. Murphy; he broods about the decay of contemporary civilization, like Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens; he foresees what is going to happen with uncanny clairvoyance and advises people, especially President Roosevelt, with such telling effect that they come to depend on him for most of their information; he is always on the scene when great events are in the making-in Paris in 1919 for the Peace Conference, in Germany to hear...