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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Russell Weisman, 59, self-styled "renegade Democrat" who opposed the New Deal through a double career as professor of economics at Western Reserve University and as daily columnist and editorial writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (circ. 273,914); after a heart attack; in Cleveland...
Adriana is the ripe, first-person singular heroine of The Woman of Rome, a long, languorous novel by Italy's most trumpeted living writer, Alberto Moravia. U.S. readers may well ask what all the critical tizzy is about. In The Woman of Rome, Moravia has blended poverty and lust with considerable technical skill, but, given Adriana's temperament, his bid for deeper meanings, e.g., human helplessness caught in life's iron grip, was doomed from the start...
...TIME's Music writer, Thomas covers the entire field of music journalism. It is a field of many levels, and almost all of Thomas' time is spent investigating them. His work in New York might call for a night at the opera, followed by a Greenwich Village jam session. It includes interviews with a composer about forthcoming compositions, listening to the new records and spotting the new in music and the great in musical performances. Last summer he took a trip to the music festivals at Amsterdam and Salzburg...
...soothingly that religion and Freud can get along fine with each other makes no sense to bright young (29) Irving Kristol, assistant editor of the bright young (four years) highbrow monthly, Commentary. In the current issue of his magazine, which is sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, Writer Kristol suggests that the peacemakers between the two camps are talking through their hats...
Supper Menu. To prepare for his boss job, urbane, unpretentious Field touched most of the bases from driver's helper on a delivery truck to classified-ad salesman, police reporter and editorial writer. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and a wartime Navy officer in the South Pacific, he is a bit to the right of his newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that...