Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, says Mason, is part of a housing revolution that buyers, builders and manufacturers must support. Up to now, many builders who added extra features to their houses failed to attract buyers because they had not been educated to recognize quality. Manufacturers of building materials have also stressed cost, rather than quality, even though they would all benefit from better homes. By emphasizing quality, they could attract more buyers to the market, help step up the yearly building rate from the present 1,117,000 to the 1,400,000 most experts think the U.S. needs...
Author Nadine Gordimer must be one of the heaviest crosses white South Africans have to bear. She not only tells the truth about her countrymen, but she tells it so well that she has become at once their goad and their best writer. In two books of short stones and a novel, The Lying Days (TIME, Oct. 12, 1953), she had already revealed so much of white hypocrisy and black frustration that her work might have seemed finished. Now, at 34, she proves in an excellent new novel that the faces of evil and arrogance have an endless variety...
...round the literary world (TIME, Sept. 1), and by comparison crackles sporadically like sniper fire. But since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that of the heart's exile from the far country of its desires, a logical reflection...
Authors who "understand women" may do so because they have learned first to understand men-and to know what a woman must contend with in her particular time and society. Author Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S theater critic and an authority on 18th century Britain, knows that Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the toughest, tetchiest, worldliest women of her time-but also that the time itself was one of treachery and double-dealing, an age in which England was "almost plagued with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope...
...stamina and courage that made her beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George II's Coronation procession and "seized a drum from a drummer and blithely sat down on it [to rest]." Once, when the doctor whispered to an assistant, "She must be blistered or she will die," he heard the 80-year-old matriarch bellow back: "I won't be blistered...