Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that affect the course of history, TIME'S correspondents, writers and editors work long and intensely on the big stories, e.g., the Geneva conference of foreign ministers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Toward the Testing, and FOREIGN NEWS, The First Step). But many TIME stories that cast new and fascinating light on life lie far from the scene of such historic encounters. Some of this week's examples...
...editors, however, have left unfulfilled the second part of their goal: that of recording "experience" and of having their publication cast "a light in its own right, a sort of headlamp throwing parts of mental landscape into severe relief." The catholicity of the book itself precludes effective discrimination. But more important, one misses a sense of perceptivity in their comments on the lecture system, on work outside the classroom, on the honors system or on tutorial. The writers have remained content as scribes with no ambition to be analysts. There is no reason why men who have studied the community...
...much for the career-woman question. But there is another hour to fill-plenty of time to solve the race problem too. So meanwhile, back at the cold-water flat, the Negro maid (Juanita Moore) is having trouble with her light-skinned daughter, who is yearning for the day when she will be old enough to leave home and pass herself off as white. The day comes, the girl goes, and the scriptwriters settle down to the point of the picture: an interminable scene in which the poor old Negro maid dies of a broken heart. Excerpts...
...Write & Light. A combination ballpoint-flashlight, made in West Germany, is being sold by Chicago's Crittenton Manufacturing Co. A flick-on switch directs a circle of light onto the writing surface, makes pen handy for use at lectures, in theaters, on night tables or as a pocket flashlight. Price...
Riddle of Cruelty. If war was agony to Gray, it was often a lark to Army Historian Love. War Is a Private Affair would make light reading for a bus ride to an induction center. Yet Love, like Gray, has a serious theory about men at war: "A man may deliver his body to the authorities, but he still maintains a will and a life of his own. In most cases he fits his private interest into the world in which he finds himself, but he does not give it up." To prove his point, Love tells ten stories...