Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of our figures on the average TIME-reading man, many of you have asked about the average TIME-reading woman. A compendium of her life and works will be ready next week...
...looked as though Western Europe's nations were getting around to that view too. The perfect, harmonious Western Union brand was very slow in the making. But at least there was some action and smoke...
...Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World in 80 Clichés," Westward Ha! is both a juicy parody of the average globe-trotter prose and a ferret's-eye view of the international scene...
...course, that Author Greene shares with some of his readers the sentimental view of Scobie as a hero-without quotation marks. It seems more probable that he tried to write a true tragedy and succeeded in writing a suggestive melodrama, with tragic overtones and ironic implications...
...Pleasures and Regrets is read in anticipation of a masterpiece to come, it has considerable interest. In its pale pieces can be found many of Proust's later themes: his view of human love as a sweet, evanescent sickness that briefly drives its victim to feverish pitches of feeling and then leaves him sated and bored; his fascination with the workings of human memory, which he saw as a treacherous filter distorting the qualities and meanings of past experience; and his complex attitude to high society, which delighted his snobbishness and shocked his moral feelings...