Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delicately balancing his fantasy with realistic psychological probing, Harold Wendell Smith shown skill and imagination equally in "The Fireman's Hat," though the ending is somewhat unsatisfying. Where Smith succeeds in avoiding obviousness and pompous language in portraying a character, Alan Friedman's "All Truth Is a Lie" partly fails. Starting with an interesting and mature idea, 'Friedman has constructed a somewhat nebulous story in which the author's manipulations are all too evident. The writing is good, but the Virginia Woolf-ish musing on Life and the nature of Time, though well-adapted to the story, is overworked...
...Filipinos as well as allied nationals in Manila, groaning under the iron heels of the enemy, soon discovered that to lie, deceive or steal was the only way to survive. ... A sackful of Japanese "Mickey-Mouse" money often would not buy fish and rice to feed your starving wife and children. The only way out was to steal. Imperceptibly, insidiously, inevitably, a weakening of the moral fiber had to come about. Thus, even long after V-J day, we see the sad spectacle of a considerable number of Filipinos still finding it convenient and profitable to live by their wits...
After letting the American lose his girl and Brigadoon go back to sleep for a century, the show just can't let sleeping towns lie...
...Supreme Court this week upheld the right of foremen under the Wagner Act to organize for collective bargaining. Said Justice Jackson for the 5-to-4 majority: though the foremen's interests lie with management in maintaining production, they may be opposed when it comes to fixing wages, hours and working conditions. Therefore, foremen must be allowed "collective action to protect their collective interests...
...Study of History is dominated by an image of genius. The view is of the chasm of precipitous time. On its sheer rock walls, as the eye of the spectator adjusts itself to the somber light of human history, are seen the bodies of climbers. Some, prone and inert, lie on the ledges to which they have hurtled to death. Some dangle, arrested, over the void as they cling by their fingernails to cliffs too steep for their exhausted strength to scale. Above these, a few still strain upward in a convulsive effort to attain a height hidden from them...