Word: heats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very length and heat of the Council debate show that reasonable men never agree on the methods of defeating prejudice. No one will question the motives of the Council; but it has acted unwisely in attempting to legislate against prejudice...
...Book-of-the-Month Club choice and a bestseller, it was a happy combination of urgent theme and ideal writer that found adequate recognition. The Literary Guild also reached abroad, in a departure from its routine menu, to give its 900,000 members Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day. Long considered one of the world's fine stylists, Miss Bowen was at her best in this study of tenuous human relationships in wartime Britain. To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look...
...over the bar I can see the ritual of the second drink. Then he has to go to the men's room and she has to go to the ladies room, and when they return, the argument has lost its tone. And the fan takes over again, and the heat and the relaxed air and the memory of so many good little dinners is so many good little illegal places, with the theme of love, the sound of ventilation, the brief medicinal illusion...
...this in 54 pages. He did in the only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the serenity of the pine trees would not let a man write well about New York) and moved to "a stiffing hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown...
...White Heat. James Cagney returns to crime in a violent gangster melodrama with psychiatric trimmings (TIME, Sept...