Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment he walked into court to defend black-haired Judith Coplon (TIME. March 14) on charges of espionage, it was obvious that Attorney Archibald Palmer would do his best to turn drama into burlesque. In years of trying bankruptcy and miscellaneous claims cases in Manhattan, loudmouthed little Archie...
The American teachers of democracy could not be .sure where their lessons would end. Once before the Japanese had acquired a veneer of Western progress. They had achieved mass education and mass production. They had learned to forge steel, to fly-and to bomb Pearl Harbor.
Noises in the Corner. During the tests, Medium Harley was beside herself with excitement. In a corner her "contact" with the other side raised a hubbub in the loudspeaker through which Miss Harley got her spirit messages. The contact, however, spoke in Arabic, so little definite was learned. But Medium...
In another field, Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism has made the grade, and people who have been discussing it can now find out what it means ("a . . . theory of man," says the new dictionary, "which expresses the individual's intense awareness of his contingency and freedom . . ."). Onetime Texas...
In Manhattan in 1946, he learned to his surprise and pain that U.S. dress designers considered Paris washed up as the fashion center of the world. Back home he looked up a then-obscure friend named Christian Dior, sketched a plan of action and cried, "There is no other way...