Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish that all the other families who have loved ones there could share the experience. . . . These men earned the right to lie there...
Trial Marriage. In Minneapolis, C. B. Hanscom refused to lend his lie detector to a young man who explained: "I've got some questions I want to ask her before we get married...
...despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel - "a scientific anatomy of pain, not a tepid caricature of misery." Teppe warns his disciples to shun society. Because nobody dares utter the complete truth, which is too cruel for people to withstand, "every conversation is a lie." Excitement too must be avoided ("enthusiasm is our enemy"). The biggest disillusionment of all is love. Says Teppe : "Love should be inevitable, preordained; it should happen to elective affinities, two people meant for each other." Alas, says he, "that is not possible. Meetings are always accidental. Any individual might meet...
...tour with the movie she made five years ago, but somehow the spontaneity was gone. At a Chicago cocktail party, swarming newsmen found her just as advertised. Miss Russell informed them: "I'm sick of talking about myself." On her movie: "They should have let Billy the Kid lie where he was." She eyed her admirers, observed: "How they drool...
Nicodemus ("he was the fellow who went to Christ in the middle of the night and wanted to know the lowdown. . . .") is the latest addition to the pious parade of current religious novels. Its appeal to readers is likely to lie less in its literary virtues than in its theme: the search for a valid religious faith by four despairing New Yorkers. They might be taken, together, as representing the common man. None of them had thought much about religion until World War II. Their contemporary torment is bluntly portrayed by Novelist Walworth with the forcefulness of the common woman...