Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago I waded through the story of his life . . . but the adulation got a bit thick . . . Congratulations to TIME, which has the proper amount of respect for a really great man but also the restraint to keep "hero worship" out of the article...
...Although Schweitzer can certainly be considered a man of character ... his "rev-erence-for-life" theme is decidedly and unfortunately neurotic . . . The tearing of leaves from a tree, the shattering of ice crystals and the cutting of flowers . . . the avoidance of unwittingly damaging weeds at a roadside -all of these are most neurotic . . . The fact that men like Schweitzer and Gandhi have been lauded and idealized for their "ethics" in such matters is a striking indication of what part neurotic trends can play in religion and ethics in our still quite primitive civilization...
...man who is receiving their mail is Editor Michael Hall of the London Mystery Magazine, a new, highbrow whodunit monthly. As our story said, Hall, an ex-reporter on the Manchester Guardian and a British Army veteran, got the British post office to recognize the mythical 221 B* as a real address and assign it to his forthcoming magazine...
Voice: There will come a man of the people for the people; and the people will know...
Prerogative. In Birmingham, England, Judge Richard Hill Norris, denying a divorce to a truck driver's wife, ruled that it was neither cruel nor uncommon for a man to strike his wife on the street on Saturday night...