Word: seems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a visitor from foreign lands, La Pipelette might seem expendable. The concierge's duty, wrote a German essayist some years ago, is "to open the front door for tenants because they have no keys. Why have they no keys? Because there is a concierge to open the front door...
...offenders were quick to get the party's point. Columnist Rodney meekly wrote : "I was off, and am trying to correct myself ... In any case involving a white and a Negro, it is the Negro who is prejudged and presumed guilty . . . This is what I seem to have forgotten." Wrote Columnist Mardo : "This writer would like to take note of the serious criticism he has received for the errors of omission [which] resulted in a poor, politically incorrect column . . . There should have been no discussion of [Commissioner] Chandler and Durocher without linking it to the main question of white...
...compassion for "fallen women," but once, hearing a young girl swear obscenely on the street, he had her marched straight off to jail. It was this inability to see life (or himself) in consistent proportions that was his strength and weakness; it made the Dickens novels, says Author Pearson, seem like "a blazing volcano of genius almost entirely surrounded by a morass of imbecility...
Newsman Shaplen spent 3½ years in Asia himself, and he has tried to translate its political conflicts into fiction. This leads him sometimes into story trouble; yet his people are no puppets, and his firm narrative skill makes what happens to them seem not only credible but inevitable...
...book that fails to come off, this one becomes a maudlin sermon, with the fuzzy moral that the Westerner should be on the side of the natives-whatever that is. Thus, better than any of the others, it makes plain what kind of blinkers Robert Shaplen's characters seem to wear. They are quite upset about what the Western impact may have done or failed to do to Asia but their reactions are impractical and confused and in some cases defy analysis. If Asia itself has anything to worry about after the Western rascals and mixed...