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Uneasy Seat. All this is such a contrast to the old, torpid, wicked days that optimists might decide that those days have gone forever. Maybe they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Old Girl's New Boy | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...which had collected unprecedented powers, but which could not collect its wits for leadership. The tempo of life and work has quickened. Factory managers reported that their employees were "really getting down to it." Even the Tory party, which since its crushing defeat of 1945 had been the most torpid segment of the British scene, suddenly came sufficiently alive to win an election. Just 24 hours before the votes were counted, a TIME correspondent in London had reported: "The Tories are less certain of not winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Dallas, one blistering afternoon last week, a wilted and red-faced businessman walked into Little Brother Runnells' outdoor watermelon garden and sank down on a chair. He ordered a slice of cold watermelon and stared at it with a kind of torpid cunning. He made it last a long time. He built a juicy suspension bridge by excavating delicately at the center of the slice, then wrecked it slowly, sadly, and with infinite care. He counted the black seeds on his plate before he dragged himself back to the unthinkable horrors of his desk, his telephone and his electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: It Was Certainly Hot | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...collection of Bloy's writings (Pilgrim of the Absolute, Pantheon, $3.50), edited by Raïssa Maritain, with an introduction by her husband, now France's Ambassador to the Vatican. The loving and loathing in these fragments might well prove a shock treatment for some torpid Christians. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passionate Pilgrim | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...plan which aroused the most interest and provoked the hottest attack were the proposals of Minnesota's Senator Joseph Hurst Ball. One reason why Congress faced a long-drawn battle, to which the hearings were only a torpid preliminary, was because Joe Ball was launched on a crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On Whose Side, the Angels? | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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