Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frenchmen buy the four intellectual weeklies that record their latest pronouncements. In regular newspapers, they often command more attention than politicians or priest Roman Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, in Le Figaro, urges French youth to a more dynamic Christian socialism. Existentialist Merleau-Ponty attacks Sartre for his latter-day allegiance to Stalinism in L'Express, is answered by Simone de Beauvoir in Les Temps Modernes...
...first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks. Ever since Gussie Busch has been a Democrat ("I'll be damned if I'll bite the hand that fed me"), thus giving some latter-day verisimilitude to Horace Greeley's remark, circa 1860: "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers were Democrats...
...fellow student seen cheating in an examination. On the other hand, however, probably few would hesitate to reveal someone caught stealing. The difference in the two situations is, of course, a matter of degree. But the former involved moral hesitation on the part of the informer, while the latter is simple case of application of accepted standards of justice. Recent discussions have placed communism and communistic activities in the second category. The Association of American Universities, in a 1949 statement signed by Harvard, concluded that Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers." Resulting policy, at least...
...HONOUR MORE, by Joyce Cary (309 pp.; Harper; $3.50), winds up a trilogy, kills off three of its main charac ters and, as usual, leaves the readers of British Novelist Gary oddly moved and vaguely irritated. In Volume I, Prisoner of Grace, Heroine Nina Latter told her story - that of a woman who obviously needed two husbands, behaved outrageously with both, but was so genuinely lovable that neither could live without her, and all three wound up living to gether. In Volume II, Except the Lord, her first husband, Liberal Politician Ches ter Nimmo, had his say and explained...
...Britain's 1926 general strike, Jim discovers that Nina has helped Nimmo in a way that also helps the Communists, and decides to kill her as a lesson in political and personal morality for the England he loves. After that, it's the gallows for Jim Latter (Chester Nimmo has already died of a heart attack). Only a novelist of Gary's power could have brought off this unlikely tale. This last third of the trilogy is also last in merit. But like the rest, it has move and go and a life...