Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to take this opportunity of expressing my objection to the tone of your article concerning Monsignor Ronald Knox's book The Mass in Slow Motion [TIME, Sept. 20]. I have always enjoyed and appreciated the light vein in which you presented our erstwhile serious world affairs, but as a Catholic I wish to affirm that the Mass is a very sacred subject to us, and to hear it alluded to as a "mumble-jumble" is not only disedifying but most revolting...
...where she made a speech, Correspondent Esther Van Wagoner Tufty caused the biggest stir of all. "They thought I was Emmy Goring!" said she. "I must say I resented that. Hell, she's at least ten years older than I am." All this she reported in her homy, wish-you-were-here dispatches...
...trying tp stow it back in the loft. In about two minutes the place begins to put on a very good imitation of purgatory, for the sun is beating down mercilessly on a tin roof over your head, and the loft is one big black Stifling oven. I wish I had thought a little about that cow barn, back in the days when I was committing so many sins, in the world. It might have given me pause...
...will allow yourself the indulgence of some of Jean Cocteau's particular brand of photographic sensualness, which is the primary commodity of "The Eternal Return," you will probably have a big time. Otherwise, you may wish that Cocteau had never put the love potion in the medicine cabinet...
...wish they would start a Drama Department. Do you think they might? Or do you think I'll have to transfer? Or do you suppose maybe I'll change my mind again...