Word: whatness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In his brief visit to the U.S., Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery (see INTERNATIONAL) got his first whiff of the ubiquitous U.S. columnists. As Montgomery sailed from Manhattan last week, ship newsmen asked him about Columnist Drew Pearson's story on Monty's conferences with U.S...
Last week, Philosopher Berlin was still observing. He had returned to Oxford to take up his old job lecturing on philosophy at New College, after teaching for a year at Harvard. In the British weekly Time and Tide he told what he had learned about the postwar U.S. university.
Since they had not learned how to read intelligently, "they tended to look to their professors to tell them not merely what books to read but sometimes what chapters and what pages; on being told, the more serious among them would throw themselves upon the recommended pabulum and would try...
One of Strauss's most difficult productions to get on the boards was his Salome, written in 1903. Asked to play the lead, Soprano Marie Wittich at first refused with the explanation: "I can't do this; I'm a decent woman." Even the composer's...
The Closing Door (by Alexander Knox; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is melodrama that raids psychopathology for its thrills. What its door is closing on, with what threatens to be a deafening bang, is the sanity of the hero. Sullen, suspicious, harrowed by dark memories, Vail Trahern (Alexander Knox) can still...