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Sirs: TIME, Dec. 5, p. 18, says in col. 2 : "He said, 'I will burn it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity.' After this arrogant comment . . ." etc. Of course I am wrong in thinking Sir Basil's comment not arrogant that arrogant implied overbearing assertion of superiority, of others' rights not recognized, that haughty would be better here, that haughty implies only a consciousness of superiority. Wrong words in wrong places keep TIME from the best tables. Haughtily, RODERICK BISSELL JONES Winstead, Conn...
...paper, were translated into a soft and fragmentary tongue before they perished into smoke. Sir Basil Zaharoff, content to disregard a questionable fame that might have injured a more immediate potency, watched the conflagration with mild attention. He said: "I burned it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity." After this arrogant comment and after the last page of the diary had be come a black and feathery tissue, Sir Basil Zaharoff left Paris for Monte Carlo...
...least in an artist's life, Thomas Mann claims, the productive, active period, and the didactic, reflective period. One does not pass from one to the other without mental pain. That is the problem of Gustav Achenbach who dies a rather ignominious death in Venice. This work, though morbid and bitter in tendency, shows Thomas Mann at the height of this career in handling words, in mastering the language. There are few pages in German literature comparable with some in "Death in Venice", particularly those which are transcribed from Plato...
Nine days has been set as the proverbial duration of a world wonder, but twelve days have elapsed since Captain Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, and still the tide of popular laudations is at flood. But praise and honor are becoming adulterated by that morbid interest which the public loves to take in its heroes. The old policy of sentimental advertising is followed: a popular song has appeared in his honor, and Parisian cafes have doubtless added a dash to absinthe to some drink and christened the concoction after the flyer...
...many showed any visible "sweetness and light". The slow moving procession looked exceedingly sour, very morbid. And yet over the head of each was a divine halo: his last major operation had been completed. Like the etherized victim of a surgeon's knife, each member of the English legion would soon send into the world of affairs the messagee, "resting successfully...