Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are enough tangled problems in our world without irresponsible journalism coming on the scene to complicate matters further. What TIME hopes to accomplish by setting Cuba, Bolivia and Latin America against the U.S., I do not know. TIME's smug self-righteousness and perverted sense of journalistic humor may tickle the fancies of the uninformed here. I was in Cuba, and I can no longer laugh with...
Completed in 1953, the Central African Federation has turned out to be one of the most unfortunate of British colonial experiments-the pasting together, mostly for worthy economic reasons, of two almost wholly black protectorates and self-governing Southern Rhodesia, whose more extreme whites want to turn the country into a miniature Union of South Africa...
Sweet Bird of Youth (by Tennessee Williams) is very close to parody, but the wonder is that Williams should be so inept at imitating himself. The sex violence, the perfumed decay, the hacking domestic quarrels, the dirge of fear and self-pity, the characters who dangle in neurotic limbo-all are present-but only like so many dramatic dead cats on a cold tin roof...
...mountains as his horizon. He studied under Boucher, came to fame in Paris, was a friend of Madame du Barry and American Ambassador Benjamin Franklin. Almost nothing more is known of Fragonard's life. With typical breeziness, he signed himself "Frago." and painted himself just thrice. One self-portrait is in the Louvre, a second in his native Grasse, and the third (see color page), newly acquired, in San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor...
...long ago, no self-respecting intellectual would have admitted owning a television set, anymore than he would dare to express a liking for Norman Vincent Peale or California burgundy. But nowadays the TV box is no longer square. An intellectual can laughingly confess to TV addiction, and the lower-brow the program the better. Even so eminent a figure as Columbia University's Professor Mark Van Doren has been a convert ever since his son Charles triumphed on Twenty...