Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Women. A lushly colorful remake of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental classic (TIME, March...
Probably Novelist Norman's hero also had reserves of character somewhere, but nothing ever quite happens to prove the point, one way or the other. In this, as in the effectively drawn picture of David Gerald in love, the book may be true to its time and place; the result, nonetheless, is of David Gerald in a partial vacuum...
Readers who know that it takes ships, planes, artillery and service troops to get the infantryman within range of a live target, may feel that Pratt has cheered the role of the foot soldier to the point of oversimplification. Actually he takes nothing away from the other arms; his peep-sight view merely assumes that their work had already been done. None of these sketches is exhaustive, but every one is readable, informal history that few armchair tacticians would wish to miss and few professional soldiers could fail to learn from. What will keep Eleven Generals and many a plain...
...being alive. Descartes, who titillated the 17th Century intellectual world, thought he was creating a new philosophy on St. Augustine's premise: "I think, therefore I am." Sartre's fundamental observation, an overstatement of something found in the writings of Kierkegaard and the German existentialist, Heidegger, may be paraphrased as "I exist and find it sickening." The experience recounted in Nausea is one of deep physical and metaphysical horror, well beyond the ennui, already sufficiently sick, that such French post-romantic writers as Baudelaire liked to wallow...
While Russian troops were parading through Red Square in Moscow yesterday, their sympathizers halfway around the world had already completed their May Day festivities. Wellosley College girls, in the most flagrant example of eastern college radicalism over displayed, ran their hoop race on the day before the sinister first of May...