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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally she got out of balance and went flip, flop, flip, SOCKO ! When she balanced herself again she was on a new axis, the old North and South Poles were at the equator and a lot of the old tropical country around the new poles. That sort of explains Noah's flood, too," said Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...last time I had met that sort of block supervisor was in Soviet Russia. The time before that was in Nazi Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Plan Fulfillment | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...jovial sort, always calm and collected, Prio is the physical type the Cubans call "criollo"': dark hair (greying at 44), black mustache, a toothpaste-ad smile. He is a neat dresser, a quiet talker. Except for his antiCommunism, he has no platform so far. He promises only to carry on Grau's policies, hoping that the growing anti-Red, anti-Russian feeling, combined with general satisfaction with Grau's record, will be enough to put him in the Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Prio's Progress | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Nancy Stern) is the third play (the others: Alison's House, Brittle Heaven) to treat of New England's renowned recluse, Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86). By now it should be clear that Emily, whose life was as inward as it was intense, is not the likeliest sort of figure for the public glare of the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...their more successful contemporaries': John Wheelwright's granite-honest poems of moral and spiritual struggle; William Carlos Williams' angular free verse written between his rounds as a New Jersey physician. For most of Spearhead's contributors, however, experimentalism has become an end in itself, a sort of perpetual and meaningless joy ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free Wheels in the Groove | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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