Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should like to suggest that the United Nations drop the word "organization'' and formally and officially choose the name "United Nations of the World": . . . UNOW -United...
Sirs: Who is your prodigiously presumptuous reader [TIME Letters, Feb. 18] so unlettered that he reports he was bored by your fine story on Craig Rice's important place in a highly significant field of letters? I suggest he read Having Wonderful Crime and then tell us honestly if he is still bored. I doubt that Craig Rice ever bored anybody. When we were both practically flunking a "journalism" course at San Diego State College, I can guarantee it was not because she was dull. In fact, I view with alarm your report that...
...Budget Casting-As a straight storyteller and creator of character, Novelist Schmitt is often very competent, but on a high-mediocre level which suggests that, in trying to write a universal story to be universally read, she has tempered her imagination and intelligence to the shorn middlebrow. Under Biblical sanction, there are a lot of women with alerted breasts and, for the ladies' trade, some ten scenes in which a man is displayed "naked except for his loincloth." The characterization, generally perceptive, but never "difficult," is smooth and simplified enough to suggest A-budget movie casting. But Author Schmitt...
...glass house and should be discreet about throwing bricks outside," Shapley observed with a smile that the Boston conscience was hardly lily-white in view of the records of its current political leadership, and that Chicago's daily crime episodes, just as an added example, don't suggest our national moral integrity to be beyond reproach from overseas...
...happened the pictures to date were the first to prove merit in such backgrounds, and they have paved the way for such as you suggest. We hope they will be forthcoming-but if you stir things up by such editorials as the copy sent us, you may mess up the possibilities by splitting reception...