Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawyer Marbury and Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut took an appalled look, secretly turned the documents over to the Department of Justice...
...Graham became president of the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Institute of Nuclear Studies, a position in which he was to be given access to confidential U.S. military information. The Security Office of the Atomic Energy Commission took one look at Frank Graham's FBI file, thicker than a metropolitan telephone book, and refused to clear him for access to atomic information. Then the AEC made its own investigation. Last week, it cleared Graham. It was true, the commission conceded, that Graham, in espousing liberal causes, had at times been associated with persons and organizations "influenced by motives or views...
...shuffled into Manhattan's Hook & Ladder Co. No. 3 on Christmas night did not look much like a philanthropist. His shoes were broken, his pants were frayed, he wore only winter underwear under his pea jacket. But the firemen knew him well as a man of good will and charity...
...enough steam up to do it again. What's more, he has recently fallen in love and married ("Sex," says Connolly, "is a substitute for artistic creation"), and the charm of new-blooming domesticity is making his old notions about art-for-art's-sake look rather silly. So Mr. Shelleyblake signs the contract and goes home to write-what? Well, at least he knows it has to be fiction and run to about 300 pages...
...young (38), unknown French professor of philosophy in 1943 when he published Being and Nothingness, a 700-page look at modern man's predicament. So well did he echo the prevailing French despair that he became a Parisian hero, quit his teaching job and unleashed a flood of controversial writing that included novels, short stories, plays, essays and off-the-cuff journalism. Almost all of it has been a clinical, repetitious elaboration of his grim teaching: wretched man comes into this rotten world through no fault of his own. The concept of God, argues Sartre, is an irrational delusion...