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Hot Desks & Melon Balls. Groggle spouts 20th Century attitudes, but seethes with Neanderthal prejudices. In the business world, he can stand dilettante competition from women who are "on the marriage-market." "But let a poor benighted female . . . get serious about working, and she is relegated to a class with Catherine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Price Groggle? | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

A study of blasted lives, and a harsh but not uncompassionate indictment of the ambition that blasted them, John Gabriel Borkman seethes with the fiercely neurotic emotions of deeply frustrated people. Only in his later scenes does Playwright Ibsen lose his grip; the too-symbolic ending points a moral better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Unlike most Negro chanteuses, Lena Horne eschews the barrelhouse manner, claws no walls, conducts herself with the seductive reserve of a Hildegarde (TIME, March 13, 1939). But when Lena sings at dinner and supper, forks are halted in midcareer. Flashing one of the most magnificent sets of teeth visible outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chocolate Cream Chanteuse | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

Whereas the Declaration, for example, seethes over British use of "merciless Indian Savages," Lamb remarks that 1) Americans first invited the Indians' aid in 1775, 2) Americans had won the tribes' enmity with endless swindles, 3) God-fearing Pennsylvanians had once offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Redcoat's View | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

The stage show is announced as "April Fool," which is, perhaps, a very good name for it. Whatever else it might be named would not be so good. There is a young man who plays an accordion, and he is a very good accordion player as accordion players go. Then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/13/1935 | See Source »

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