Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faculty and alumni committees were organized, the State Senate's Committee on Education perked up its ears, and from Washington came scholarly Dr. Ralph E. Himstead, executive secretary of the august American Association of University Professors, to suggest that the Board "take another look at these three young men (the fired economists)." When the Regents declined to take the hint, Himstead reminded them of "what happened" to the University of North Dakota when Governor Langer fired four deans and 16 professors. "Our degrees are at stake," howled Texas' students, who knew, if the Regents did not, that disapproval...
Humor and characterization are excellent in "The Late George Apley," but that is about all. The plot lacks substance and sentimental appeal and has none of the warmth that might have rescued it. The effect is always superficial; never once does the tone of the play suggest a smooth or natural flow. Epigrams and quotable witticisms follow in rapid succession, and if the play's continual references to Boston life delight the audiences here, that delight can be expected to diminish to the chuckle stains, on Broadway. Chuckles do not make hits...
...should like to propose a memorial to Wendell Willkie which I think he would have approved. I suggest that millions of our citizens contribute one dollar each to a Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Fund. The income therefrom would be used to provide traveling scholarships for American college students to spend their vacations touring various parts of the world, meeting the people Willkie loved and championed. . . . Perhaps half of the income could be used to provide scholarships for foreign students to visit...
...very young; 3) the careful handling of pictures was much more like art students than like fascist hooligans; 4) a delegation of unidentified students called at the offices of the newspaper L'Aurore. They stated they were not collaborators or Nazis, as the Picassophile press was quick to suggest, but resisters-resisting mystification. In sum, the motive seemed to be resentment at the enormous puffing up of Picasso recently, and against his new slipshod, almost contemptuous style...
...TIME'S readers suggest a more appropriate name...