Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That, to the West, fighting for survival, is the most important point in an important new book. Paul McGuire's There's Freedom for the Brave (William Morrow Co., $4) is a powerful statement of the thesis that the West cannot defeat the evils of Communism without conquering the weakness and the evils in its own body & soul. The book has two parts and two aims. In the author's words, the first is to show the world "What's Up," the second, "What's to Do." Author McGuire is considerably more successful...
...need bricks as well as ideas. We need to be able to point to something that everyone can see and say: 'Look! Democracy built this.' We still have nothing to point...
...Point of Departure. Last week the Dilowa Hutukhtu, urbane, erect and 66, was a Lattimore house guest in Baltimore's Ruxton suburb. He speaks Tibetan, Chinese, and everyday Mongol, reads the literary classical Mongol, which has changed little since the days of Genghis Khan. But since he understands no English, he will do no teaching yet. For the time being, he will be a research adviser on Mongolian culture and religion...
Lattimore hopes the hutukhtu's presence will be "the point of departure" for expanded courses on Mongolia. If all goes well, the hutukhtu may well settle down for a while, to resume in Baltimore the private life of study and prayer he knew at Naribanchin Sume...
...Director Rothenstein had made his point. The selection committees had purchased no Hogarths, Reynoldses, Gainsboroughs, Constables, Turners, Blakes or Lawrences. Among later artists, there were no canvases by Whistler or Rossetti-though there were a great many by Royal Academicians. This week, except for about 30 paintings and sculptures which the Tate had always thought worth looking at, the exhibit went back into deep freeze -Psyche...