Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations and felicitations on the publicity given Izler Solomon in the Music section of TIME, March 27. I've been wondering how long it would be before wide-awake TIME tumbled to the fact that a first-rank American conductor was maturing in Chicago...
...Warm Springs Roosevelt had less relaxation than usual. He made no public comment on the speeches of Adolf Hitler at Wilhelmshaven, of Neville Chamberlain in Parliament (see p. 19), but he talked long on the telephone with his foreign relations experts both at Washington and abroad. While he vacationed his special train stood ready on a siding 70 miles from Warm Springs for a quick return to the Capital. "A source close to the President" gave out that Adolf Hitler must be plotting to extend his conquests beyond Europe into Asia, into the Americas...
...long afterward the same customer began joining marriage bureaus, get-acquainted and lonely-hearts clubs. He was, he lied, a middle-aged dairyman with $100,000. The answers poured in, mainly from women between 35 and 50 (80%, overweight)-nurses, stenographers, club women, even a few plane-owners. Unasked and unequivocally, one out of three offered physical surrender on sight...
...grows in understanding as his professional skill increases. He falls in love with Rachel and finally, through the haze of the lies she tells him about herself, begins to understand her sulphurous, vicious, pathetic, vice-ridden past and future. Still to be translated is Summer 1914 (a book as long as Gone With the Wind), which carries the fate of Jacques and Antoine...
...invitation to the "forbidden city" of Lhasa, his novitiate in the big monasteries of Drepung, Sera and Ganden, with monk populations from 5,000 to 10,000. The climax is, of course, the fussy, interminable ceremony at which he became a full-fledged Lama, a Western reincarnation of a long-dead Tibetan saint. For readers who picture Tibet from James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Lama Bernard's account should be an eye-opener...