Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To summarize the impression gained from "Hi-de-ho" is a strange task. It is impossible to judge the show according to ordinary standards. As a series of disorganized acts it wins success through the irrepressibility and charm of a talented collection of individual performers.
The reading, while it seems extensive, has great variety and has been excellently chosen. The lectures are well Coordinated with it and at the same time avoid repetition. The lectures them-selves very, but on the whole, are fair enough. They can be expected to show considerable improvement, as this...
Your article on illicit traffic in narcotics in the Near East, appearing in TIME of April 3 (p. 14), would give one the impression that the Government of Bulgaria is winking at a big illicit production of opium.
All this Mr. Adams tells us, but all this can be gleaned from the "Education of Henry Adams." Beyond lies the biographer's opportunity for evaluation and philosophic estimation, but beyond Mr. Adams does not go. Should it not be possible for one who has, in Mr. Adams' happy phrase...
Maurice Sachs in his "Decade of Illusion" is very much a member of the school he describes. He is an individualist and an intellectual; something of a philosopher, a rationalist, while still an incurable romantic. At times he spoils his impression by unrestrained, uncritical enthusiasms; and he is throughout perhaps...