Word: texts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ethic? Are not manners surface characteristics rather than molders of men and nations, interesting as they are accepted or not accepted as realities or aspirations? Although some of these points, and many more, are touched on by Mr. Schlesinger's introduction and summary, they are undeveloped by the text. Perhaps they call for another, longer, weightier book...
...down that mass-circulation merchants like Beaverbrook and Hearst thought was good for their readers. It ran cheesecake-but also Charles A. Beard's The Republic, condensed in ten installments. Well aware that not every picture was worth 10,000 words, its editors made room for editorials, closeups, "text pieces" by men of letters (Winston Churchill, John Dos Passos, Reinhold Niebuhr, et al.). Still popularly regarded as a "picture magazine," LIFE now averages up to 20,000 words of text per issue-the wordage of a novelette. It took science out of the moonlit fantasies of the Sunday supplement...
...English Jew, presenting Koestler's views, is confronted with the fundamental question plaguing all Palestinian Jews both today and during the 1937-1939 period in which the action of the book takes place: can the Jewish need for a home in Palestine be better met by the peaceful text-book tactics which have brought frustration, or by the more expedient terrorist activities tainted with the unsavory odor of gangsterism? It takes Joseph two years to decide upon the second course. Through Joseph's eyes, Koestler gives the reader a vivid impression of a typical Marxist agricultural commune, and the immense...
Accompanying the text is a picture of Miss de Havilland, knife in hand, underneath which the caption reads: "Sister is psychoneurotic. . . ." This statement is misleading. The reader is apt to get the impression that the term, psychoneurotic, means the same thing as paranoiac...
...warned that the Japanese moral code-"based on murder and falsehood"-must be radically altered, predicted that three generations would be needed to educate Japanese to the meaning of the new constitution. Said Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, as it prepared to publicize and interpret the constitution's text and meaning: "Only when we have created a state or society in which we can get along perfectly well without knowing a single article of the constitution can the new constitution really be said to have been completed...