Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wonder. Europe's pride is the tender and assertive pride of age. The fashion now among such British intellectuals as Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Essayist Cyril Connolly is to say that only the dying old have life, and that the life and vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more...
...wonder is not that Europeans living amid the testaments to our common failure do so little for themselves, or show so little enthusiasm for this last battle to save what is left. The wonder is that since the end of World War II they have done so much, an that with our aid we can now reasonably expect them to do more...
...wonder how many people in Europe have a right understanding of the revolution that has taken place in Asia in the last 40 years. ... If the European was feared because he was strong, admired because he was clever, and trusted because he was believed to be honest . . . [now] the West has lost its opportunity of domination. . . . Western civilization is no longer regarded as civilization...
...makeup and general appearance of the magazine have been improved, and Mary Harrell's two drawings on the inside pages are simple and pleasant. Once again the cover, by Burt Glinn, is most attractive. It shows a handsome Radcliffe girl sitting on some steps eating an ice-cream cone. Wonder if she's going to read the issue...
...this comes off quite convincingly in Clewes's tight novel. But after having enjoyed this odd story the reader may wonder: What is the author trying to say? That Bullivant is a weakling and Slater a no-good and that weaklings and no-goods cause trouble'? Granted. But is that sufficient ground for implying, as this novel clearly does, that the partisans' original attitude was morally right, that passivity is preferable to active resistance to tyranny? The Dreader may wonder what is the decay of values, the spiritual malaise that leads so talented a writer to write...