Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your review of the cinema, The Lost Moment [TIME, Dec 8], based on the adumbrated novel by Henry James, the scribbler (to use the vulgar expression), is sufficient, I think, to suggest the ponderous prose, the-some personages might almost label-circum-locuted prose of Henry, the dear fusspot, James, but, may one reflect, and I do appreciate your unwonted forbearance, that the pages of TIME are not precisely the place-one may relievedly observe-where one expects to encounter . . . the ambiguous, attenuated, ' grayed verbiage, the niceties of the vaporous review mentioned somewhere above...
Veritably, The Lost Moment critique, though divertingly atmospheric, was a lost moment, for such abstruse phraseology, almost senza cerimonia, as it were, substituted a fabulous if rather obfuscated Choctaw for simple English though the need for the substitution remains ineluctably TIME'S. Well would we, with James, delicately strangle the scrivener of that apotheosis of the superficial...
...scion of a wealthy U.S. family -a young Yaleman, adept at billiards, girdling the globe in search of a cure for a broken heart. She was a second-class geisha in old Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...
...with sticks, stones and one red flag, they headed for Panama City's Plaza Santa Ana to organize a "popular protest," and hoped to get the National Assembly to hold up the agreement. Halfway down the Avenida Central, police met them with tear gas and sabers. For a moment the students gave as good as they got. Then they fell back. Score: 30 hurt (including 17 policemen...
...partisanship clear: "I don't care who wins, as long as it's the Bears." The temperature was a chilly 35°, but Conzelman's boys were hot. By beating the Bears, they won the National League western division championship, and silenced-at least for the moment-radio's voice of doom. Score: Cardinals 30, Bears...