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Even with some of their most private thoughts blue-penciled, Escape in Passion's characters will probably seem alive to the devoted few who have followed their progress since 1932. Most newcomers to Romains' encyclopedic study will experience the puzzlement of a pedestrian who suddenly sees the muddy, sweaty finalists pant past in the last stages of a transcontinental bicycle race. He has no idea of where they are pedaling to, no conception of the vigor and dash with which they began the contest. Nonetheless, he feels an instinctive desire to cheer -if only because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bicycle Race | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...pages-clothed in a fairy-taleish, often brilliant prose-they were fascinating and had a kind of queer vitality, but were not much like anything on earth. Delta Wedding, which is Author Welty's first novel, is likely to provoke in readers the same old mixture of puzzlement over the odd people in it and respect for the sensitive, nimble hand that pulls the strings. Every page is filled with a sensitivity and workmanship that raise it far above the level of most novels; but also into an atmosphere that most readers may find too rare to breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cloud-Cuckoo Symphony | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...feature was Sunbonnet Sue, a sentimentally saccharine "B" picture which scratched and jerked across the screen for 80 minutes. (General Shtykov's interpreter gave up after five minutes.) Sunbonnet Sue was followed by an animated cartoon about Traphappy Porky, a jitterbugging pig, which added to the Russians' puzzlement. Promptly after the final flicker, the Russians filed silently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Russians Came | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...French Committee [is] in a mood of mingled despair-despair over the immediate outlook from their point of view -and puzzlement at the Allies' attitude, which is believed here to result from an incredible lack of comprehension of French problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Despair on the Eve | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Dirt Farmer. Owlish Alvin Saunders Johnson is himself a savory ingredient in this academic melting pot. In his nearly 70 years he has taught economics at Columbia, Nebraska, Texas, Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, Yale. Much to the puzzlement of his more exotic colleagues, he remains in manner the Nebraska-born yokel. Slow-spoken, foot-shuffling, pipe-sucking, he is as crammed with rural lore as an October silo with corn. Johnson's happiest moments include working with his seven children in his Nyack, N. Y. garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Adults | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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