Word: whims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chatter & Curiosity. When the whim takes him, Dadswell goes to sea, works in the black gang or deck crew, returns with human-interest yarns that set him solid with his plain-folks readers. He has none of the synthetic open-eyed wonder of the late O. 0. Mclntyre, or the troubled sympathy of Pyle. Says Dadswell: "I always have a specific story in mind when I make a trip. Soon I am going to Cuba to find out if Sloppy Joe's is really sloppy and if a guy named Joe really runs...
Many of the individual chapters are subtly, brilliantly managed; here & there (as in Vol. VIII, entitled Verdun) they blend into a more or less related whole. But ordinarily Author Romains moves his characters about by whim or wind, endows his chance encounters, political musings, philosophic sermons, fancy seductions with no more apparent interrelation than that of news stories in the daily press...
Rising and falling with the tides of every faculty whim, the tutorial system of the Department of Economics faces the prospect of a watery grave. Last spring, a two year suspension of all tutorial was voted by the Department, except for Seniors writing honors theses. At the end of the two years, the possibilities and value of the continuance of the tutorial system are destined to be reassessed. The uncertainty of the suspension period, however, poses a gloomy outlook for a tutorial system which is gasping its last breath in many departments of the University...
Unlike U.S. journalists, who are hired by the whim or good judgment of their editors, Japanese journalists are traditionally hired on the basis of formal examinations. Recently, 488 selected applicants for ten reporting jobs on Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun demonstrated their ability at composition, foreign language, Japanese vocabulary, dictation & rewrite...
Wallace does not propose that we placate the Russians by acquiescing in their every whim-but he is envisioned enough to recall that Franklin Roosevelt's key to peace was the dissociation of our foreign policy with , that of the United Kingdom...