Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Robeson knew what it was like to be popular-as an All America football star, as a concert artist who packed halls from coast to coast and made a fortune. In recent years, he had also learned what it meant to be unpopular-for being a party-liner and...
The next year Davis joined the party, moved to New York City and began rising in the party hierarchy. Along the way he learned the tricks of the Communist game. Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old...
* Later in the war, in a copy of TIME that reached Japan via neutral Stockholm, Iva first learned of the G.I. nickname "Tokyo Rose"-or so she says.
Britain's Reginald Reynolds, a "confirmed serendipitist" (discoverer of unexpected treasures) and the author of a learned, witty study of sewage-disposal problems (Cleanliness and Godliness, TIME, May 6, 1946), is no nostalgic yearner for the boskier days of old. In Beards he stands aloof (and beardless), a lollipop...
What happens to the unspoilt youth when he gets to college has moved Sir Walter Moberly, ex-professor of philosophy at Birmingham University and one of Britain's top educators, to write a book called The Crisis in the University. Britons have decided that it is one of the...