Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result was usually a scandal. Connoisseurs could find their way about like owls in the brown murk of academic painting; Manet's light-filled colors simply made them hoot. His subject matter, all agreed, was worse than vulgar. Manet had seen fit to invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word...
Just 25 years ago, TIME'S first cover subject was "Uncle Joe" Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives, symbol of a kind of bossism that was dying. Uncle Joe's retirement was a good if obvious choice of a cover subject. By TIME'S standards, Niebuhr is just as truly news as Uncle Joe. That Niebuhr's significance is less obvious does not make him less important...
...Radio listeners could almost hear the thud of hooves in the background of the conference bulletins. "Now Molotov's ahead. But he looks tired. Stettinius called a press conference. . . ." All this nonsense was so vastly confusing (and so essentially false) that many readers got bored with the whole subject and haven't read a line about U.N. since...
Veteran TIME editors, writers and researchers qualify as "experts" in the fields they cover. The prime requirement for a TIME staff member, however, is not special knowledge, but general curiosity. TIME'S staff stands midway between the facts and the reader. Those too deeply involved in a subject often lose the ability to tell others about it. The worlds of business, mathematics, art, music and medicine all have their own jargons. TIME writers who cover each of these must understand the patois; but they have to know another language-English...
...Germany, for example, in a way that clearly showed TIME'S working hypothesis: that the Nazi Party was very bad medicine. It reports the Communist Party today against the background of a similar hypothesis. The five or six editors and correspondents most directly concerned with Britain approach that subject with very different emotional attitudes; they meet at present on the following working hypothesis: Britain is in a bad way, and may well be in a worse one a year hence; but all we know about that country leads us to believe that it will somehow come through...