Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critics of the Council say it lacks guts. Zook and his aides, who prefer to avoid the arena themselves, spend a lot of time on the long-distance telephone-pressuring educators to pressure Washington. Their methods seem to work. In the 79th Congress, which adjourned last week, Zook & Co. went to bat for eight bills, made five hits (UNESCO, the Fulbright bill for war-surplus scholarships, the Mead bill to house G.I. students, Naval R.O.T.C. legislation, the Selective Service compromise on 19-year-olds...
Weighed down by international depression and their own heavy thinking, Chronicler Romains' characters literally escape into passion. Some seek normal love, others prefer perversion. Result (in the English translation): to make his novel safe for U.S. family readers, Romains says he has felt obliged to make "completely brutal excisions." The deletions are certain to stimulate readers' imaginations. Example: "If you like, I'll sit at the piano (three words deleted...
...London, bespectacled Buddha-like Tass Chief Alexander Sverlov has a staff of 25 putting out the Soviet Monitor, an English-language paper that is free for all who want it. In Vienna where its news and pictures are also free Tassmen have been a little piqued because Austrian editors prefer to pay for fresher A.P., U.P. or Reuter news...
...Catholic Church, they are freethinkers, and constitute the vanguard of atheism, bolshevism and revolution. The Jewish influence upon morals is fatal, and the publishers spread pornographic literature. It is also true that the Jews are committing frauds, practicing usury and dealing in white slavery. . . . One does well to prefer his own kind in commercial dealings, to avoid Jewish Stores and Jewish stalls in the markets, but it is not permissible to demolish Jewish businesses...
Like other rough mysteries, war is something the wits of The Little Group would prefer to skim or skip. When it comes, some of them foam with the "war hysteria" they used to deride. Their self-assured little world, fissured anyway with snobberies, jealousies and plots, goes to pieces. As Harvard overflows with V-12s in training, Dorothea's libertine of 1923 shows up rich and flashy in a Navy uniform. As the ensuing chapters unreel, the reader may think that Miss Howe's heroine is being loaded with the wartime experiences of a dozen women rather than...