Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should French Canadian writers follow French traditions or strike out in their own way, even if it is a North American way? For two years the question has sparked a lively debate among French Canadian intellectuals...
...mail sacks crammed with ballots had been lugged into the red brick headquarters of the British Medical Association in Bloomsbury's Tavistock Square. A blue-uniformed B.M.A. porter guarded the doors to the room where clerks (sworn to secrecy) counted the answers. The ballots were replies to a question sent to 55,842 B.M.A. members: Would Britain's doctors be willing to serve under the new National Health Service Act backed by Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan...
Despite the investigations, N.A.N.A. still planned to release its series. (LIFE bought excerpts for its March 29 issue.) But Doubleday was in a swivet. It postponed publication of its book until the question of ownership could be cleared up. If OAP claimed the diaries, and it looked as if it would, the Government could reap the profits from this bestseller...
...Enquirer, unimpressed, whacked him again: "We wonder how highly Pegler would regard this array of experience if it were presented by someone else. . . . We still think that Pegler's rather notable talents are much more usefully applied in fields where his competence and experience are less open to question...
What's Left for Leftists. This eloquent if frequently disorganized diatribe is a significant indication of how more thoughtful leftists, repelled by Russian tyranny, now question their old power-centered assumptions. Strands of the Western tradition they had once blithely ignored-its respect for individuality and defense of freedom for dissident minorities-now seem terribly precious to ex-fellow travelers like Gollancz...