Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having returned to the Anglican faith of his childhood, Believer Joad worships regularly at his parish church in Hampstead or at the church near his Hampshire country place. But he has lost none of his saucy skill at dialectic. He explained last week: "When war came, the existence of evil hit me in the face. . . . Human progress is possible, but so unlikely. People don't know how to conceive it." Wrote Pessimist Joad shortly after the end of the war: "I see now that evil is endemic in man, and that the Christian doctrine of original sin expresses...
...prodigious worker, a great student of government and one of the best-read men of his time. But most readers will find him a pretty cold fish who swam best in muddy political waters. Brant insists that "outside of Congress ... he was known for his racy conversational skill, ribald wit and zest for salacious stories." Nothing will seem more unlikely to readers of James Madison...
Gothic Fogs. If only because Juenger had to engage in some mystification to confound the censors, there is no direct correspondence between actual events in Europe and the development of his novel. What he does, however, is to recreate with great skill the emotional atmospheres of totalitarian terror. The pastoral scene in which the brothers explore the meanings of nature & man is transformed into a fearful and terrifying "battleground full of ominous Gothic effects-miasmal fogs that confuse the Chief Ranger's victims, weird battles between dogs that suggest the means by which Hitler dominated Europe, thick smoke arising...
...symbolism to accompany the portrait (e.g., for Petrillo, a foot stepping on a pile of phonograph records). Most TIME cover stories are written and edited by the regular staffs of the section in which they appear. Certain cover stories, that present special difficulties or call for a special literary skill, are written by Senior Editor Whittaker Chambers. Some Chambers cover stories: Marian Anderson, Arnold Toynbee, Rebecca West, this week's Niebuhr story...
Mickey Rooney, who must play to a large following that knows what it wants, reminds one that horsing and hamming can be done with as much skill and power as real acting. His proficient use of his body, in the early fights, is reminiscent of Chaplin or Astaire. In flashes, he plays straight; then and throughout his performance, it is clear that one of the best actors in pictures is wasting his time for lack of roles worthy of him-for example, Studs Lonigan...