Word: turned
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...much it gets off its pages into the minds of its readers." Sort the world into stories and carry them (facts, personalities, ideas, images, dramas, quirks, gossip, the details and energy of life) from Out There, where things happen, to In Here, inside the reader's consciousness, where stories turn into wonder, entertainment, cautionary experience, useful memory. The magazine's voice, Luce said, had three modes: "Everything in TIME should be either titillating or epic or supercurtly factual...
Institutional novelty was the American way, and the '20s created institutions that would have seemed contradictions in terms in Paris or London: a Museum of Modern Art, for instance, which opened in 1929. New York City was turning into an international culture, which would make it a natural haven for artists and intellectuals displaced by Nazism in the '30s--whose presence, in turn, would help make the city into Modernism's center of gravity in the '50s. New York was the world's "shock city," and would remain so for decades to come--not least because it harbored such cultural...
With three consecutive losses, and only one win in its past eight games, the Crimson season is in danger of ending in bitter disappointment. If Harvard hopes to salvage its season, it must start its turn-around this weekend against their conference rivals...
...plead for the process: help save this important institution. This year, don't cheer the heavily financed and poorly conceived proposals as models for national reform; first they need to be responsible pieces of legislation and not just whim writ large. California voters should have enough sense to turn down these types of proposals for more serious methods to govern their state--the officials in Sacramento should be called upon to do more for their constituencies. As this election season heats up and the bold positions of the Californian propositions again make headlines, the nation should focus on the real...
WASHINGTON: The people in the House say Si. By the narrowest of margins -- a single vote -- the House of Representatives voiced its approval Wednesday night for a plebiscite that may turn Puerto Rico into the 51st state. More importantly, they did it without any bill-killing riders such as a clause making English the official language of the United States -- a suggestion from Rep. Gerald Solomon that seemed calculated to offend the Spanish-speaking commonwealth. ?I?m extremely excited,? said Puerto Rico?s only congressional delegate, Carlos Romero-Barcelo...