Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such fantastic sensationalism of theme invalidates any claim of the author's to represent life as it is lived, except, of course, in the paranoiac's dream world, which is admittedly the level of reality with which the Surrealist painters and writers are concerned. As it happens, most of the...
A political champion may make a huge success in the provinces, but he is not worth his ice water until he has cried his cause in New York City. Abraham Lincoln made his first big national impression before an audience in Cooper Union in 1860. William Jennings Bryan chose the...
If there are times when the luminous patios of the Agua Caliente Hotel, which are used for all exteriors, give the picture the air of an animated resort poster, this impression is corrected by an imperfectly subdued tendency to affront Mexico by portraying it as a country whose people understand...
When Tess Slesinger's first novel, The Unpossessed, appeared last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), critics gave it three rousing cheers. But few thought it Dostoevskian, none noticed that its title was a salute to the Russian master. Critical consensus was that Author Slesinger was a wit, which did...
Johnny Price lives in San Francisco and does nothing more tiring than clip the occasional coupon that enables him to pay room rent, drink and stand around on street corners. One day he meets up with a little old man, who makes a queerly indelible impression on him. Thereafter Johnny...