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Writes Chambers in Witness: "To [my children] he is always 'Nixie,' the kind and the good, about whom they will tolerate no nonsense. His somewhat martial Quakerism sometimes amused and always heartened me. I have a vivid picture of him in the blackest hour of the Hiss case, standing by the barn and saying in his quietly savage way (he is the kindest of men): 'If the American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil...
...Here we are in Rome," complained an American tourist, camera in hand and vivid sport shirt on torso, one red-hot day last week. "But where are the Romans...
...Lemelin is a successful businessman, a chess champion, a former skiing champion and, in the judgment of many leading critics, French Canada's outstanding novelist. In addition, TIME's writers and researchers have found him to be a discriminating reporter, with a knack of transferring his vivid French style to colorful phrases in his self-taught English. In discussing TIME, for instance, he writes: "TIME is a magazine always faithful to its manner as a stone is faithful to its hardness. I like that. What is a TIME story? It is a common fact or human being which...
This cheerful excuse for a plot is taken seriously by neither Sholom Aleichem nor his characters. What matters is the vivid parade of penniless producers, starving actors, shrewd sharpers and keen-witted kibitzers who rollick through the book. This volatile world often seems like something out of the merrier parts of Dickens: a director with three wives, a sentimental actress always in search of a husband, and harmless scoundrels who are never happier than when plotting to steal each other's prima donnas...
...somebody's standard of living . . . may be by 2% or 3%. By the time you get through, the Communist arguments would be just as effective because the contrast between what you have provided in India and what you yourself enjoy in this country today would be just as vivid...