Word: individualistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best in this study of tenuous human relationships in wartime Britain. To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century British manners & morals seen through the eyes of an old Victorian individualist. England's shyest novelist and one of her best, Henry Green, made his American bow with Loving. A dense, subtly written and poetic novel of character with an Irish-castle setting, it fully deserved the British critical puffs that preceded it. The most overrated British novel of the year was Hope...
...executive, who is primarily a rugged individualist, must crush his ego for group decisions "in order to be one of the boys." Said Dr. Slight: "Thus the aggressive vitality drive that makes the executive ambitious is thwarted, and it must go somewhere, so it goes inside, producing diarrhea, headaches, blurring of vision ringing in the ears," and ultimately ulcers,* high blood pressure, or both...
...great day. Said the Times: "Music is the medicine of the mind and Sir Thomas . . . is among the best doctors of the age, combining high professional skill with a highly popular bedside manner." Said the Manchester Guardian: "Sir Thomas . . . has always been and will always be an individualist. Everybody, including those on whose corns he has trodden, will wish him many years of life to go on being...
...most striking new fact about Japan's farms is the just-finished land reform. Spurred by the U.S., pushed past Diet reactionaries by SCAP and often attacked as socialistic, it actually las had an individualist, conservative result...
...roundabout way to socialism. The Manchester Guardian, which sees socialism at first hand every day, thought that the U.S., as an alternative to socialism, was heading toward an "insurance state," i.e., "deliberate shortening of the odds against the weak but without abandoning the individualist way of life...