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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England. It has also raised taxes and cut rations, and its popularity has taken a definite, although possibly not decisive, slump. Last week the Labor Party met at Scarborough in its annual conference to take stock of its accomplishments and chart its further aims. From Scarborough TIME Senior Editor Max Ways reported...
Died. Claude McKay, 58, onetime Pullman porter and first Negro to write a bestseller (Home to Harlem, 1928); after long illness; in Chicago. A protege of Max Eastman, Poet-Author McKay drifted leftward through Communism to disillusionment, then swung to Catholicism, lost his high literary promise...
...PORTABLE VEBLEN (632 pp.)-Edited by Max Lerner-Viking...
...While the road of social criticism must always be lonely," pontificates glib Pundit Max Lerner in the introduction, "it need not be made bitter as Dante's exile." But Veblen-who was as different from Dante as Bernard Shaw is from Pope Pius-was not an easy man to employ or encourage. His conspicuous love of lechery caused him to be fired first from the University of Chicago, then from Leland Stanford. Hired as an economist by the U.S. Food Administration in World War I, he coolly proposed, says Lerner, "to do away with the merchants in the country...
These sudsy romantics are elegantly produced by John Houseman and directed by Austrian Max Opuls who, back in the early '30s, made one of the finest pictures of this genre-Schnitzler's Liebelei. Opuls knows all there is to know about romantic values: flirtations in the Prater, late on a winter night; a military band concert in a provincial city; the way a veteran roue misunderstands a refined and ardent woman. Some of his scenes have such strong visual charm that the dialogue recedes to a sort of musical accompaniment. But by & large the movie talks rather than...