Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harlow was reading Dryden" [TIME, Dec. 28], may or may not come to have classic rank with "Veni, Vidi, Vici" or "Damn the torpedoes," but it will have at least as much effect as your suggestion (after last year's election) that the "eggheads" voted readers' for respect for Stevenson, in intellectual undermining effort your and our cultural heritage...
...chain . . . Only leisure can rehabilitate the overstressed mechanism of the mind . . ." But mere idleness is not the answer. The kind of leisure men need in a machine-age civilization is rather some spare-time task or occupation "that makes some call on their intelligence and restores their self-respect, transforming them once more from cogs in a machine to men among...
From Shylock to Scrooge McDuck, banker, through the years, have rarely achieved kind reputations. Even the lives of great philanthropists have been shaded by charges of "sharpness" and "monopoly." Actually however, bankers and the institutions they represent have achieved the respect and confidence of their communities, shedding completely the insidious stereotype of the villainous mortgage forecloser of the melodramas...
...with recent thinking on heredity and parental discipline. In the process of fitting together the old world, of philosophy with the age of data, Eliot usually manufactures his dramatic conflict largely in the mind of the spectator rather than in action of the characters. The Confidential Clerk in this respect, depends even more on the symbolic clash of ideas than did The Cocktail Party. Eliot fashioned his earlier play with far better poetry, injected sporadic ironies and amusing lines, and allowed his non-cognitive audience plot and interrelationships which could be enjoyed on many different levels. The Confidential Clerk...
...reaped a harvest of literary honors. He has won the Adonais Prize with a volume of poems, the Lope de Vega Prize with a play, and the Nadal Prize with The Final Hours, his first novel. U.S. readers will not have to share Prizewinner Suarez' gloomy attitude to respect his accomplishments as a novelist...