Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goodrich C. Schauffler's strident disapproval of "the modern U.S. preoccupation with the female bust": it might be helpful to suggest-solely in the interests of science, of course-that the mid-century American is not the only one who has been mammary-directed-see The Song of Solomon...
...bellicosity. Its domestic program is determinedly progressive without a trace of demagoguery. Only the far left and far right found it easy to fault the message. An unenthusiastic reporter said that the congressional reaction to the message could be summed up by "Uh-huh." This was meant to suggest that the message failed to excite or inspire, that it elaborated the obvious. Perhaps that was precisely what the nation needed. After years of insecurity, anxiety, drift and desperate expedients, Eisenhower in half a term has brought the U.S. to the confidence and agreement symbolized by that...
...back brief happiness in a flying visit to Regency England, a schoolmaster gets a terrifying look at the future, a cabinet minister has the illusion that he is addressing an audience of dead men. Expertly told, these stories stick so sternly to the same supernatural theme as to suggest that the author, who has been writing plays for years about tricks with time ( I Have Been Here Before, Time and the Conways}, would rather like to take his fantasies seriously. The one exception is Uncle Phil on TV, an uproarious account of how the unwanted uncle whose insurance money...
...general political situation can be foreseen, and the technological possibilities are more or less known. Between them, they suggest some of the likely elements in the future development of the claw...
...derive a good deal of pleasure, and often find a reason to link up one or other of the hither to neglected books, by having some kind of loose system in your reading. I don't suggest anything like a set list, or 'planned reading'; one's instinct rightly rebels against such regimentation . . . But there are all kinds of excitement and adventure to be had from associative reading. I have never thought very much of Wordsworth as a poet, or found him a man attractive in himself...