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WHAT ARE YEARS -Marianne Moore-Macmillan ($1.50). The most accomplished poetess in the English-speaking world today is Marianne Moore, a greying, mobile-faced, almost reckless spinster, born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1887. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1909. She was an assistant in the New York Public Library from 1921-25. In 1924 her book of poems Observations received the $2,000 Dial award; and for five uninterruptedly happy years thereafter she served on the learnedly esthetic Dial's editorial staff. Since the Dial's demise in 1929, Miss Moore has picked up a microscopic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...committee has] all too often acted irresponsibly. . . Rash and reckless in a time of national danger. . . . The Dies Committee's definition of 'subversive' is so fantastic as to defy belief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dies Irae | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Japan stood at the edge of the world gambling table last week and watched to see if her reckless bet would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Way to Win a War | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...Pupils are taught the functions of banks, the dangers of reckless speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Third R | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...With reckless good will, the U.S. public annually buys, sends and throws in the wastebasket an estimated 30 million dollars worth of Christmas cards.* Among the few thousands that don't go regularly into wastebaskets-just sometimes-are reproductions of art. The demand for Christmas cards done by artists has resulted in a growing business (about $500,000 in 1940). Today many a U.S. artist, selling up to 50,000 cards at a 10% royalty, makes a considerable part of his annual income at Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ducks for Christmas | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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