Word: symbolisme
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The only short story, Howard Lindsay's "Breakbands," has the merits of extreme economy and good visual detail, but the author tries so hard to imitate bad Hemingway that his work becomes artificial and almost unbearable. The long, casually connected sentences and the nonsyllabie tough talk do not seem to...
The suicide of Jan Masaryk in Czechoslovakia today has a significance far beyond that of the loss of the man himself. Masaryk was almost universally accepted as a good man, and his death in the wake of the Communist revolution is a severe shock to the entire world, not only...
TIME has stressed its interest in people by putting a picture of a person on almost every one of its 1,360 covers. Some exceptions: Cartographer Bob Chapin's maps of Paris (Sept. 4, 1944) and Jerusalem (Aug. 26, 1946), Japan's setting sun (Aug. 20, 1945). TIME...
The Heritage. It was perhaps a tragic accident-though its symbolism can scarcely escape a death-ridden world-that none of Father Marx's beloved children lived happily; the two daughters who survived him committed suicide. But he was to have other children. They came to him by the...
This greater tale, as you might easily suppose, is the growth of America, particularly as viewed from a country in the midwest. The Civil War here marks the maturing of the man and of the country, and that is only the most generalized cross-reference between plot and history. Every...