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...them. TIME'S story did not reflect on his professional integrity; it intended to reflect sympathetically on the perils of an actor's life, from which even escape into anonymity of the Army is impossible. (TIME still understands that he is classed 4-F.) Nor did TIME invent the story of a plumber being blown through his cellar door, which came from press dispatches...
...Somewhere on the road, he has met the democratic upsurge, and he has recognized it. You cannot invent this stuff. You have to feel it. Willkie has merely read the faces of plain people from Los Angeles to London to China, and has thus been moved to ask for a second front, a worldwide offensive, a free China, a political offensive to win the common man, and a timetable for the end of colonialism in the Pacific. He has become suddenly powerful, not because he is a charming man, but because he has read it right, and said it straight...
Another character is Indian Chieftain Tishomingo, a wizard with a bullwhip, who had spent his life trying to invent a Choctaw alphabet, and succeeded. Tishomingo has some of the fabulous charm which Fenimore Cooper gave his aborigines. And the last days and death of tough old Sam Dabney skirt the edge of really good romancing, only now & then breaking bounds to snatch a slice...
...idea of what the undergraduate contributions should be like. Apprentice writers have a good deal to do, and very little experience yet available for expression. They need a free medium in which they have scope simply as the young to annoy by being clever and seriously as craftsmen to invent, explore, and anticipate. Those who have been unhappy about the undergraduate work in the Advocate presumably would not prefer disadvantageous competition with the commercial magazines or the kind of local-color article on Radcliffe that graced the Progressive a couple of years...
...composer, Virgil Thomson helped invent Neo-Romanticism, which is described in the current Modern Music as "a melodious simplicity, accepting all the known tricks of the trade, with a friendly nod to dissonance or any other musical Nance...