Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Education. "I agree with Nicholas Butler that America is the best half-educated country in the world. But happily, the American people are fond of learning. Their curiosity and interest compel them to study beyond their time of childhood. These polite, happy people-almost infantile in their simplicity and sincerity-are assimilating little by little the whole of European civilization...
From the day he dropped in at the Vallauris fair last summer, Picasso had lost all interest in the huge paintings he was doing for the Castle Grimaldi museum at Antibes (TIME, Oct. 6). He had settled down at Vallauris with his one-year-old son and the baby's beautiful young mother, Franchise Gillot, and turned out well over a thousand pieces of pottery...
...Stassen take the job? Not for political reasons, he said ("No, honestly, I don't think so"). But he does "bear in mind" that in Philadelphia he will be close to Washington and New York. He also warned the trustees that he would not give up his "vigorous interest in public questions." Beyond such distractions, the University of Pennsylvania could count on having an able and popular administrator as president-for at least four years, or until he got an offer he liked better...
...small boat, later parachuted back carrying OSS messages to the Dutch underground. After a year at Yale and the cross-country trip, he had been impressed by "the lack of class distinction, the materialistic thinking of most Americans, their absence of reserve, and the general lack of interest in church." One English girl who attended prep school at Bryn Mawr, Pa. thought that "the amount of food Americans waste is disgusting. The amount of clothes American girls have is tremendous-closets and drawers filled to overflowing." Said another English girl: "The overwhelming friendliness is the most striking thing about America...
...Pleasures and Regrets is read in anticipation of a masterpiece to come, it has considerable interest. In its pale pieces can be found many of Proust's later themes: his view of human love as a sweet, evanescent sickness that briefly drives its victim to feverish pitches of feeling and then leaves him sated and bored; his fascination with the workings of human memory, which he saw as a treacherous filter distorting the qualities and meanings of past experience; and his complex attitude to high society, which delighted his snobbishness and shocked his moral feelings...