Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even on the warmest day--and summer is sultry in the Virginia Piedmont--a cool breeze skims across the hilltop of Monticello. The trees are always moving, the branches opening and closing holes through which appear glimpses of the surrounding hills, or of the little red and white village of...
Finally, a burly policeman who could not stand the gaff, passed out with a loud expiration, and Vag leaped over his prostrate body to grab a handful of Valentine cards--frilly ones with Cupids and lace, uproarious ones with embarrassed beans, and sentimental ones with honey sayings. Wrapping one arm...
With that leverage on good and evil, talking with a rational clarity most mystics have lacked, Mr. Propter makes moral mincemeat of everything in sight, "good" or "bad," within the purely human sphere of endeavor. Some of his enemies-war and fascism-are popular pushovers. Others will leave Propter few...
The present Broadway season has been nothing much to brag about. It has produced some very good entertainment, no good serious drama, much bad playwrighting. Last week the casualties were heavy. First, English Playwright J. B. Priestley went to the block for When We Are Married, a stale joke protracted...