Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press in general for not doing enough to clear up the crime. Perhaps he was trying to ingratiate himself with the newsmen by showing concern for their rights; more probably he was chiding them. In any case, he made the correspondents angry. Wrote Britain's discerning Rebecca West: ". . . Never have I seen ... such a miracle of tactlessness...
Some Europeans had a deep sense of the human import of the Philadelphia story. Wrote Rome's II Tempo: "What portends there-elephants, bands ... a gigantic circus? [It] is a manifestation of that peculiar exuberance typical of American democracy . . ." A more thoughtful analysis came from Britain's Rebecca West, who was covering the convention for U.S. and British papers, but even Miss West seemed a little out of breath. "I cannot see these demonstrations . . . these sudden bursts of songs and dance as undignified or irrelevant," she wrote. "That is what they used to do in the Middle Ages...
...Bread. Most newsmen, sitting at planked tables beside and behind the rostrum, shared the disadvantage point that made Rebecca West "more familiar with the contours which members of the Republican Party present to the world behind them than in front" (the New York Herald Tribune headlined her piece: BRITISH OBSERVER Is IMPRESSED MOST BY STASSEN'S FOLLOWING...
...worry about coverage. With or without Presidential Candidate (for the sixth time) Thomas, U.S. readers would be exposed to all shades of opinion by all varieties of domestic and imported experts. Among them: Cartoonist David Low (for LIFE); Randolph Churchill and ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce (United Features); Rebecca West (Canada Wide Features) ; Novelists Louis Bromfield and Katharine Brush (I.N.S...
This little book, a worthy counterpoise to Rebecca West's The Meaning of Treason (TIME, Dec. 8), is one of the pleasures of the season. In the guise of high-class reporting, that book was a brilliant shifting of floodlights around modern forms of an ancient depravity. In the guise of casual memoirs, Four Studies in Loyalty affirms the beauty of the contrary virtue-a virtue that may be as subtle and incalculable in its effects as a fresh scent on a spring morning...