Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom has a National Affairs cover story in TIME been done without any help from the subject. In the case of Communist leader Eugene Dennis (TIME, April 25), however, it had to be that way. Three weeks before the story was due Researcher Blanche Finn asked Dennis for an interview. He turned the matter over to his publicity man, who asked Miss Finn to submit her questions in writing. She did. The publicity man took one look at the questions, declared they were "too knowing," and refused to give the answers...
...about a possible lifting of the Berlin blockade had been spread in the "foreign press." To refute incorrect rumors, Tass deemed it necessary to set down "the facts as they are." Russia's U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik and U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had been conducting talks on the subject of Berlin. According to Tass, the first of these conversations had taken place last February, the last almost two weeks...
Until last year, Puerto Rico's Governors were appointed by the U.S. President, subject to Senate confirmation. Judges of the island's Supreme Court are still presidential appointees, but Puerto Ricans feel that they took a long step ahead in the democratic process when a new U.S. law allowed them to elect their own governor...
Little can be done about this. So long as Harvard keeps its present examination system, the ability to whip off a coherent essay on almost any subject whatsoever will often count for more than knowledge of the material covered in a course...
...Getting Married," the Bernard Shaw play which the Radcliffe Idlers successfully--revived last night, is what Shaw has called one of his disquisitory plays. As the title indicates, the subject the Master has taken under scrutiny is the modern institution of marriage; but, as is customary with Shaw, a great many other institutions--divorce, sex, the church, snobbery, to name a few--are also pulled gently but firmly apart. And, as is also usual with Shaw, he offers no solution or substitute but ends by fitting the broken pieces back together again. Shaw is not an anarchist; he has deftly...