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...that more things went on behind Queen Victoria's billowing black bombazine skirts than her spiritual grandsons have been led to believe. It is probably too late to set matters straight, but Australian Cyril Pearl has made an industrious try at striking "Victorianism" from the lexicon as the synonym for middle-class prudery...
SINCE TIME'S Feb. 6 cover story on NATO's General Alfred M. Gruenther appeared, "Gruenthergram" has become for many TIME-readers a synonym for a crisply written note of command or commendation. Last week, flying from Paris to Washington, General Gruenther dashed off two unusually long Gruenthergrams for Senior Editor Thomas Griffith, who edited the cover story, and Associate Editor A. T. Baker, who wrote...
...such a well-mannered magazine as the Saturday Review of Literature, the experience was a shock - but the shock was not limited to the magazine. In 1936 a scrappy, pug-nosed man from Utah took over as editor. His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious type of crusader who seems perpetually to be throwing a tantrum. Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar." "What," asked Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. DeVoto's real grievance . . . this continual boiling up about other people...
...turbulent strokes of brilliant color. Hitler called him the most degenerate painter; the free world found him an apostle of artistic freedom. No modern artist except Picasso (whom he affects to despise) has staged more lavishly dramatic impromptus on canvas. Kokoschka's "O.K." is almost a synonym for expressionism, and rightly...
...York Historical Society. Its embossed inscription: "E. C. Booz's Old Cabin Whiskey." With a new spot in the public's eye, the cabin-shaped vessel, its neck resembling a chimney, was likely to further the popular misconception that E.C.'s surname spawned the most common synonym for strong spirits...