Word: landed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 500,000 Arabs are now refugees from areas of Palestine controlled by the victorious Israeli army. Jews-most of them refugees from Europe themselves-have taken over the Arabs' communities, where they now work Arab land, live in Arab houses and even use Arab cooking utensils. One such community is Akir, a village on the road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, which TIME Correspondent John Luter visited last week. Here is Luter's report...
...Mayor Jean Bouyer, a stonecutter turned Communist during the Nazi occupation, had a reconversion to private enterprise. "Our fields," he announced, "yield 20% uranium. They are the world's richest. Now is the time to get in on the ground floor. There's plenty of good uranium land available here. Since uranium is selling for $278 the kilo in Belgium, it's a fine commercial proposition . . ." In similar booster style, Land Dealer Jean Michelet took aside a visiting TIME correspondent, confided: "Come, now, I am too experienced to believe that you are a journalist. You represent American...
...bass part. No one could have any criticism, however, of Eleanor Davis' "Laudamusic," which was altogether competent. The soprano, Phyllis Curtin, had the most difficult role of all, particularly in the jumps of the "Et incarnatus est." Though she had many exquisite tones, she showed a slight unwillingness to land decisively on a note and sustain it. Tenor Summer Crockett was inaudible at times during his soles and his voles unpleasantly constrained...
...going to settle down to a donnish little tussle with Noah Webster had better brace himself for a shock. In Notes Towards the Definition of Culture Eliot advances a view of present-day western civilization that is as pessimistic as his famed post-World War I opus, The Waste Land. What's in a Word? U.S.-born T.S. Eliot migrated to England in 1914, and quickly became what he is today, the English-speaking world's most distinguished poet and literary critic, one of England's most conservative conservatives, and its most brilliant spokesman for Anglo-Catholicism...
...illiteracy, class friction and bigotry. He may even insist, as most people do, that the flexible human race can always be relied on to re-create a new culture even while it is scrapping an old one. But he will get no encouragement from the author of The Waste Land, who has rescued his vision of culture simply to give it an impressive funeral...