Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since American morality seems to be ebbing fast, the story of the paratroopers who held up a German cafe [TIME, Sept. 24] may be regarded by many as a boyish prank. Let them note that this is but one of countless incidents (the majority unpublicized), perpetrated by G.I.s and U.S. officers, that have reduced U.S. prestige in Europe. . . . For a good 45% of the uniformed men over here seem to believe in their own generation that they belong to the master race and some of them conduct themselves like amateur SS troops...
Sirs: Your note, "Chaucer, the Agitator" [TIME, Oct. 15], calls attention to the action of Local 555 of the Teachers' Union in condemning Chaucer's Canterbury Tales because of their supposedly being a stimulus to race prejudice. One can only gasp in shocked amazement that any group of presumably educated educators could arrive at such a completely untenable opinion. Had these pedagogical-engineers read Chaucer with even the minimum of understanding, they would have discovered an author more cognizant of the ills of humanity than many a more recent writer and would have found him a champion...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg had also grown taller. A year ago, Michigan's Governor Harry F. Kelly was set to run against him in next year's GOPrimary. But now that Big Van had become a foreign policy statesman of decision and note, the opposition to him at home had collapsed...
There is a fashionable note of modern psychiatry in the Erskine interpretations. The man with palsy was really only suffering from "worries and regrets." He was cured by "something in the speech, the manner, the personality of Jesus...
...artists developed a kind of pictorial shorthand. Recalls Shinn: "Sketches, if any, made on the scene, were hurried; usually mere markings with numerals shot off at tangents. If a [building] fire was to be covered, then a marginal notation . . . 18 stories and seven across, representing windows. A quick note of some detail of a cornice or architectural peculiarity was drawn in more carefully. More crosses where fire blazed in windows." Back at the drawing-boards the sketches became detailed pictures...