Word: let
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Let thin-skinned Lawyer Scott, able Catholic layman, good friend of Herbert Hoover, be less umbrageous. No insult to Catholics was intended by a good old English term...
...Germans and colored folk like their sermons long" (TIME, Oct. 16). Let me say, first, that I like your usual use of similes, metaphors, and adjectives and it is probably true that a great many colored folk like this type of sermon. But in a world sick with prejudice, I hate to have TIME help prejudice along in one of our most pressing domestic problems. To generalize upon the colored people, putting them alongside of Hitler and the Germans ... is not a way to work for democracy...
...last week New York City schools closed to let children take advantage of a special, eleventh-hour, five-cent admission to the local World's Fair. Besides those who went through the turnstiles, from 75,000 to 200,000 whooped in without paying a cent. And then they took over the Fair...
...They got jittery watching for British warships, put a time bomb in the engine room to blow up their prize rather than surrender her. After eleven days they arrived, not in Germany, but at Tromsö, Norway, flying a German flag. Authorities here saw through Flint's disguise, let the prize crew take fresh water and debark their British prisoners (with whom Mr. McConnochie escaped), but insisted that the U. S. flags be repainted before the ship cleared for Murmansk, Russia...
Says Saroyan: Cops have hearts and streetwalkers souls; it is interference, institutions, authority that degrade humanity. And in a gush of feeling, he preaches a benevolent anarchy of live-&-let-live. That feeling gives his play warmth, faith, also a measure of falseness. For to exorcise evil and unhappiness, Saroyan has to make the world cockeyed and alcoholic, and all its outcasts childlike and starry-eyed. His mushy idealism turns his play, with its god from the slot machine, into a fairy tale. Saroyan takes the bread & butter of existence and smears it with...