Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much of the fourth volume of Osbert Sitwell's "biography of a family" is devoted to the new forms of literature, music and painting that took root in Britain after World War I. But the old Victorian form of father, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., makes the other characters (even such brilliant ones as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot) look slightly dwarfish. Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on him, Waugh simply...
...There Is No Plot." George Marshall's was the first major speech of the session. No parade ground general, he spoke, in the undramatic tones of an economics professor, to a soberly attentive audience. Said he: "Systematic and deliberate denials of basic human rights lie at the root of most of our troubles . . . [There is a] persistent refusal of a small minority to contribute to the accomplishment of our agreed purposes . . . There is no plot among members of this organization to keep any nation or group of nations in a minority. The minority position is self-imposed...
...Century-Fox) is the story of a London lay psychiatrist (Burgess Meredith) who takes on a tougher case than he's sure he ought to handle. Somewhere between neurosis and insanity, a young veteran (Kieron Moore) has tried to strangle his bride. Before the psychiatrist can uncover the root of the trouble, the young man shoots his wife and kills himself...
...about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Items from the first installment (now running in Collier's):1) in 1939 Hopkins seriously considered himself a likely candidate for President and thought F.D.R. did, too; 2) Winston Churchill, admiring Hopkins' ability to get conferences down to brass tacks, called him "Lord Root of the Matter...
...thirsty on the Louisiana State University campus. At L.S.U. stadium, where 10,000 assembled to watch the inaugural ceremonies, there was free food & drink for all-200,000 hot dogs, a quarter of a million buns, 8,000 gallons of buttermilk, a quarter of a million bottles of root beer, Coke and "red soda...