Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first replies to the invitations, which went to most of the Who's Who of Western Hemisphere philosophers, were anything but favorable. All Cuban and most Mexican philosophers declined. So did nine members of the American Philosophical Association, pointing out that academic freedom was nonexistent under President Juan Perón. All told, just three U.S. philosophers and half a dozen U.S. lighter-weights accepted...
...their pulp-paper characters was ever so hard-boiled as Street & Smith themselves; whenever a title slipped in public favor, they coldly shot it down. Last week Street & Smith staged a mass execution. In one volley, their last five comic books and their four surviving pulps (Detective Story, Western Story, Doc Savage, The Shadow) bit the dust...
...Force did wonders for the "timid" boy. In 1941, when he was 18, Chuck graduated from high school and enlisted as a private. He was trained as a mechanic, but was soon sent to flying school in various Western states. In northern California he met pretty, dark-haired Glennis Faye Dickhouse. Since then, all his fighting aircraft have been named Glamourous Glennis. Even the X-1 has Glamourous Glennis painted on its nose, but official Air Force pictures do not show...
...Paso (Paramount) is a morally cross-eyed western about a young Eastern lawyer (John Payne) who has trouble telling right from wrong. Payne, just back from the Civil War, arrives in El Paso in search of his sweetheart (Gail Russell) and finds the town in the grip of violence and disorder. Landgrabber Sterling Hayden and his corrupt stooge, Sheriff Dick Foran, have the townspeople terrified. At first Payne tries unsuccessfully to unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking...
...Dismayed. Empson's paradox is that he preaches Oriental passivity in the most dynamic sort of Western verse. This is symbolic of Empson's life in China, where he shared the hardships of the Japanese war with his students, trekking overland from Peiping to distant, mountainous Yunnan province, a distance of some 1,800 miles. Books were lost in the flight, so Empson gave a whole course in the English metaphysical poets from memory, reconstructing John Donne's songs and sonnets by substituting lines of his own for lines he had forgotten...