Word: suggestive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...note to his publisher, the writer of this ironic romance observes that "I guess I'm the least known author of my ability in America." The titles of some of his previous books (Gestalt Therapy, Art and Social Nature) suggest why. But in this novel, Author Goodman shows an impressive gift for fiction. His prose is strong-flavored and exact, his comedy is caustic. Still, for all its humor, The Empire City bulges like a diplodocus. The first of its four overlong, sometimes aimless books was begun in 1939, and Goodman says he may yet write another volume...
...hate. But because they cannot be convicted in a court of law would you therefore allow them to teach in the universities? No, you know as well as I that private institutions can exercise their own judgment regarding whom they desire as teachers or other employees. Might I suggest that in using this "innocent until proven guilty" standard on Communists but not on Fascists you are employing a double standard? Or do you feel that somehow there is more respectability, more rationally to Communism than there was to Fascism...
...have made with great difficulty, and the often halfhearted nature of officials proposals has been discouraging on this account. But there is another group which is unwilling to abandon the local atmosphere of Dudley where they feel that their problems are better understood. It seems rather odd, however, to suggest that non-residents should be carefully insulated from students living at the College: someone who cannot be happy in a heterogeneous community seems rather out of place in a national college...
Imperturbably, Nehru denied that his 1954 agreement with Red China about Tibet had been violated by Communist aggression, and he delivered a history lecture that seemed to suggest that if the Communists had not broken the mold of Tibetan society, someone else inevitably would have...
...caused by his ambitious economic development program, would ultimately bring Menderes down. Republicans are now afraid that Menderes. enjoying his new mystical popularity, may call a snap general election. They decided to hit the road themselves. Inonu's spirited welcome and the public resentment against his rough treatment suggest that the country may be fairly evenly divided at the moment. At week's end Inonu canceled a scheduled visit to Berlin. Said he: "I do not believe it would be wise to leave Turkey at a time when the country is in such an excited state...