Word: utters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short weeks ago, made for Joseph Stalin trenchant verbal replies to Adolf Hitler, for the Soviet Dictator has had no stomach to speak out himself and risk war with Germany. Of Hitler, scathing Radek has said: "The donkey's ears stick out! His Nazi doctrine is utter humbug. Non sensical!" Last week Communists were saying that should brilliant Karl Radek, the Walter Lippmann of the Kremlin, be shot there is no Red able to succeed him in giving wit and penetration to Stalin's stolid, blunt ideas...
...Tunis's attention, or possibly exceeded his ability in translation-forces me to step into the white light of publicity, and confess that I am the wreck that penned those pitiful words that headline your column on Education (TIME, Sept. 14), "After 25 years I am an utter failure, morally, mentally, and financially...
...blowing over the plains of Siberia or Montana, sometimes by thoughts of Angkor Wat, "the lost cities, deep in the dead dark, no thought, no memory," sometimes by evocations of the end of history, when only birds will "sob for the time of man," sometimes by a vision of utter desolation...
...extremely well handled and the chronicle of their lives forms an attractive and decidedly first-class novel. Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine, is a triumph of characterization; shrewd, courageous, amoral, she flaunts her personal rebellion in the face of a rebellion shaken land. Half-Irish and half-French, utter realist yet the servant of a self-deceiving love, Scarlett O'Hara is unique in American fiction. Other characters are good and bad; the minor figures are not sketched with that conciseness and surety which mark the mature artist. Miss Mitchell needs space to develop either a character...
...glance at the Teachers' Oath legislation, for instance, shows what can happen when newspapers start blasting free education. Without the agitation of Hearst papers throughout the land a mean, suspicious, and scurillous attack on the teaching profesion might never have occurred. The utter vacuity of the oath does not matter. What we have is a potent group of papers attempting to gag discussion of controversial subjects by teachers, but demanding that very privilege and power for itself alone...