Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth Winslow's Jonathan Edwards (Macmillan; $3.50) is what right-minded citizens expect of Pulitzer committees: a solid, sound and informative book, neither exciting nor stodgy. When Preacher Edwards preached hellfire he meant real fire. He lifted the scalps of his Northampton congregation by asking them to imagine first their little fingers dipped in the burning lake, then their hands, arms, whole bodies. He tackled the knotty complexities of doctrine with equal vigor. Biographer Winslow, who is chairman of the English department at Goucher College, pictures him as a man with a new vision unfortunately enmeshed in obsolescent theology...
...annual convention at St. Louis' Jefferson Hotel. And before the week was out radio was decisively split into two rival segments -big NBC and CBS opposed by Mutual Broadcasting System. Mutual had endorsed the Federal Communications Commission's sweeping antimonopoly decrees (TIME, May 12) and cracked the solid network front by signing a sudden armistice with ASCAP...
...humanitarian appeal for food, clothing, and medical supplies it would seem that even the most extreme of isolationists and interventionists could unite. The isolationists are on no more solid ground in damning it as an "emotional alignment" (a la their late-lamented Walter Millis) than are their opponents in fighting the Hoover food plan as a device to help Hitler. The drive was clearly, simply, one to ease dreadful suffering and deprivation. Harvard's niggardly response was a disappointment and a disgrace...
...lived on dog biscuits rather than quit vaudeville. A raw bumpkin out of Sedalia, Mo., where he was born in 1903 and christened Lewis Delaney Offield, he went to Manhattan and got his first job-phone clerk in the New York Stock Exchange. It still gives him a solid pleasure to revisit the Exchange from time to time and gaze upon his former employment from the dignified visitors' gallery...
Frazer himself thought that his books contained "a melancholy record of human error and folly." One thing he was sure of: "the permanent existence of ... a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society. ... We move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below. From time to time a hollow murmur underground or a sudden spurt of flame into the air tells of what is going on beneath our feet...