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This a bit of self-diagnosis after a fullface look in the mirror on this, our 40th birthday. The first issue of TIME appeared exactly 40 years ago this week-March 3, 1923. It was, if we may be permitted a bit of fond reminiscence, an entirely new, stylish, venturesome, 30-page publication, all black and white and full of beans. It went to 12.000 charter subscribers, including some names that are printed rather large in history: Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, William Howard Taft, William Allen White, Booth Tarkington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Some who were on the original list...
...degree at the University of Rochester at 19, taught high school Latin and won a law degree at Harvard in 1923. He built a profitable practice in Rochester as a trial lawyer, and in 1946 won at his first try for public office: Congressman from New York's 40th Congressional District. As a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the Joint Congressional Committee on Immigration, Keating won a reputation for competence in both fields. Representing the strongly Republican Rochester district, it was not hard to keep getting reelected, and Keating was comfortably happy with his status...
...chronic deficit. But to its loyal readers it remains one of the best journals of analysis and opinion in the U.S., distinguished for its international coverage and lucid reports of Soviet tyranny. "That the New Leader has survived these many years," said the magazine last week on its 40th anniversary, "is an understandable source of pride to all who have participated in the struggle to keep it alive...
...central figure, Woody Hartman, gives Sydney Chaplin little to work with. On his 40th birthday Woody has misgivings about the value of his life and viability of his marriage. But how does he express the fact that he hates going through the middle-class motions? By second thoughts about his Great Neck home. The author uses this technique-characterization by telling reference--to the point of inanity...
Weiner uses this technique-characterization by telling reference-to the point of inanity. The mention of Spain, a comment such as "once I thought Socialism was the answer," serve to stereotype, but never to clarify. One never really learns what Woody Hartman's problem is. On his 40th birthday he says he has misgivings about the value of his life and the viability of his marriage. But how does he express the fact that he hates going through the middle-class motions? By second thoughts about his Great Neck home...