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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British View...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Will Argue War of Independence | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...opening pages of his new book. But the reader who thinks this modest pronouncement means that dignified Poet Eliot is going to settle down to a donnish little tussle with Noah Webster had better brace himself for a shock. In Notes Towards the Definition of Culture Eliot advances a view of present-day western civilization that is as pessimistic as his famed post-World War I opus, The Waste Land. What's in a Word? U.S.-born T.S. Eliot migrated to England in 1914, and quickly became what he is today, the English-speaking world's most distinguished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Waste Land | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...This view, says Eliot, is not much help to culture. Hand-picked "elites" (who is going to pick them? he asks) inevitably become specialists-one-track groups who only get together "like committees." Even if they could be chosen and made to shake down together, how would they carry out the important duty of passing on their cultural values to a succeeding generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Waste Land | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...these different levels . . . Complete equality means universal irresponsibility . . . oppressive for the conscientious and licentious for the rest." Mass education looks fine on paper, but in practice it only means "half-education," and encourages the half-baked notion "that superiority is always superiority of intellect." In Eliot's Victorian view of things, the true superiority is the superiority of any class passing on its culture for generation after generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Waste Land | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Elizabeth Taylor's best novel is still her third, A View of the Harbour, in which she managed a greater range of characters and moods with more solidity of style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feminine Ripples | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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